Machzor Kephi Minhag Roma. According to Italian rite. With Kimcha De’Avishona by Yochanan Treves and commentaries by Ovadiah Sforno and Maimonides

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Menachem ben Abraham of Modena & Partners

Bologna

1540

Two volumes. Titles within elaborate frames, many initial letters within cartouches. Scattered marginalia and corrections in an Italian hand; final leaf of Vol. I contains inscriptions recording births dated 1574

Vinograd, Bologna 16; Y.Y. Cohen, no. 7; Adams J-200

Prayers for the entire year, including Passover Hagadah, Ethics of the Fathers, the Books of Canticles, Ruth, Lamentations, Jonah and Ecclesiastes, various laws relating to birth, family purity, marriage, burial, etc. With the first edition of Treves’ commentary elucidating the subject matter of the prayers and the meaning and derivation of phrases. For a thorough, scholarly discussion of this Roman rite, see Samuel David Luzzatto: Mavo LeMachzor Bne Roma (Tel-Aviv, 1966); with notes and additional material by Daniel Goldschmidt, and a bibliography by Y. Y. Cohen