Sha’ar Bath Rabim [prayers for the entire year]. According to Aschkenazi rite. With commentary Hadrath Kodesh by Isaac Segal of Herlisheim

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Bragadin

Venice

1711-15

Bound in four volumes. Hebrew marginal notes in at least two hands, at times extensive. Two volumes with initial leaf within type-ornament surround. Wide margins

Vinograd, Venice 1596

This sumptuous and extraordinarily large Machzor was printed for the use of the Chazan at the request of the Aschkenazi congregations of a number of leading Italian communities: Venice, Padua, Rovigo, Verona, Mantua, Casale Monferrato, and Gorizia. Because of the enormous expense involved in this publishing endeavor, preceding the volume’s customary rabbinic endorsements, two Italian magisterial documents appear, providing copyright protection for twelve years. In his commentary, R. Isaac Segal, who served as Cantor in the town of Herlisheim, not only reflects upon the texts of the prayers, but also provides a compilation of laws and customs based upon Aschkenazic source material