(FRENCH JUDAICA)

Estimate: $1,200–$1,800
Hammer price: $1,400

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

printer

n.p.

Place

Avignon

Publication

1765

Description

(Liturgy). Vidal, Isaiah and Ventura, Mordechai, eds. Seder ha-Kunteres…ke-Minhag Kehiloth ha-Kodesh she-bi-Mechoz Venaissin. [Compendium of selected festive prayers throughout the year according to the rite of the Holy Communities in the Venaissin District]. Includes Passover Hagadah

references

Vinograd, Avignon 1; Hagadah unlisted

summary

A distinctively emblematic text of the particular species of Jewish culture and practice that evolved in Avignon and the neighboring communities. The volume contains the fullest collection of “Obros,’” the macaronic poems of which alternate lines are in Hebrew and in Judeo-Provençal (see e.g. ff.47-8). The Passover Hagadah includes Seder hymns unrecorded elsewhere. See New York Public Library Catalogue, A Sign and a Witness (1988), no.170 (illustrated)

ff.59 (i.e. 56). f.43 torn, text slightly affected. Waterstained. Hagadah winestained. Marbled endpapers. Contemporary mottled calf gilt, rubbed. Lg. 4to

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