Seder le-Arba Tzomoth u-le-Arba Parshiyoth ke-Minhag K”K Carpentras [The Carpentras Rite for Four Fasts and Four Special Readings]

Estimate

$400–$600

Hammer price

Not recorded

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author

(LITURGY).

printer

Hertz Levi Rofe and his son-in-law Kosman

Place

Amsterdam

Publication

1762

Description

FIRST EDITION. Title within typographic border. Tailpieces. Signature and stamps of former owner, “Leon Alphandery, Salon.”

references

Vinograd, Amsterdam 1811

summary

Abraham Monteil, editor of this prayer book, was a native of L’Isle (L’Isle-sur-la-Sorgue), smallest of “the four holy communities” of Comtat Venaissin, the papal territory in Southern France that historically provided a safe haven for Jews fleeing the provinces of Languedoc and Provence, from whence they were expelled by the French monarchs. (The other three communities in this tetrapolis were: Avignon, Carpentras, and Cavaillon.) The Jews of the Comtat had their own synagogue rite, which has fallen into disuse. See C.Roth, “The Liturgy of Avignon and the Comtat Venaissin,” Journal of Jewish Bibliography I (1939) p. 99-105; reprinted in Cecil Roth, Studies in Books and Booklore (1972), pp. 81-87; EJ, Vol. V, cols. 208, 859; Vol. IX, col.105; Vol. XI, col. 402

ff. (2), 1-3, 5-151, (1). Appropriately enough, tallow on pages of section entitled “Night of Tish’ah be-Av.” Contemporary calf, spine in compartments, gilt. Rubbed. 8vo

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