Machzor Mikol Hashanah [prayers for the entire year]

Estimate: $5,000–$7,000
Hammer price: $6,500

Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.

author

(LITURGY)

printer

Giorgio di Cavalli

Place

Venice

Publication

1567

Description

Two volumes. According to the rite of Bohemia, Poland and Moravia. With the commentary Ma’aglei Tzedek. Printer’s device on title (Yaari no.32). Marginal notations in an early hand

references

Vinograd, Venice 556; Mehlman 323; JNUL copy incomplete

summary

A rare 16th-century liturgical edition. Not in The Bodleian Library, Oxford (Steinschneider lists only the German rite). Zedner (p.466) notes the British Museum copy is “imperfect at the end.“ Roest (p.705) notes only the Aschkenazic rite

Vol. I: ff. 284 (mispaginated). Vol. II: ff. 291. Marginal repair on titles. Various 17th-century owners inscriptions relating to family-history. Lightly stained, some worming and repair in first gatherings of Vol I. Modern calf. Folio

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