Sidur HaTephiloth Keminhag Hakara’im [prayers for the entire year]. According to Karaite rite

(LITURGY)

Daniel Bomberg

Venice

1528-29

FIRST EDITION. Five parts bound in four volumes

Vinograd, Venice 135; Mehlman 1838 incomplete; Haberman, Bomberg 145; not in Adams

A Sixteenth Century Machzor of Remarkable Rarity. Only one complete copy extant, found in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. Karaism had its beginings in the eighth-century breaking with Rabbinic tradition by rejecting the Talmud and declaring Biblical law as the sole basis of Judaism. Karaite edict dictates for two daily prayer services, in the morning and evening and on Sabbath and festivals, the Musaph prayer is added. Karaite liturgy has little similarity with its Rabbinic counterpart, prayers referring to the Temple sacrifices form the main basis of Karaite rite, as well as passages from the Bible, with an emphasis on Psalms along with liturgical poetry unknown to Rabbinic rites. See: EJ, X cols.780-1