Auction 30 · Lot 147
Seder Hakuntress. According to the rite of “The Holy Communities that dwell in the Venaissin District.”
- Estimate
- $1,200–$1,800
- Hammer price
- $1,100
Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.
author
(HAGADAH)
printer
n.p.
Place
Avignon
Publication
1765
Description
Prepared by Isaiah Vidal and Mordechai Ventura
references
Vinograd, Avignon 1; unlisted by Yudlov, Otzar Ha’Hagadoth
summary
Compendium of selected Festive prayers throught the year, with a complete Passover Hagadah including Seder hymns unrecorded elsewhere. The volume contains the fullest collection of ‘Obros’ - the macaronic poems of which alternate lines are in Hebrew and in Judeo-Provençal. A distinctively emblematic text of the particular species of Jewish culture and practice that evolved in the Jewish Communities of Avignon and the neighboring territory. See C. Roth, The Liturgies of Avignon and the Comtat Venaissin in: Journal of Jewish Bibliography (1939) pp. 99-105. See also New York Public Library Catalogue, A Sign and a Witness (1988) no.170 (illustrated)
ff.59 (i.e. 56). Slight tear on title, stained. Contemporary mottled calf, gilt, rubbed. Large 4to
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