Auction 47 · Lot 191

Machzor Kephi Minhag Roma [Festival prayers according to Italian rite]

Estimate: $2,000–$3,000
Hammer price: $2,600

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author

(LITURGY)

printer

Menachem b. Abraham of Modena & Partners

Place

Bologna

Publication

1540

Description

With commentary Kimcha De’Avishona by Yochanan Treves and commentaries of Maimonides and Obadiah Sforno. Two volumes. Titles within elaborate frames, many initial letters within cartouches. Corrections and scattered marginalia in an old Italian hand, including a lengthy marginalium to the Passover Hagadah

references

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

summary

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 le-Machzor Bnei Roma, with notes and additional material by Daniel Goldschmidt, and a bibliography by Y. Y. Cohen (Tel-Aviv, 1966)

Vol. I: ff. 200, mispaginated (collates as per Adams). * Vol. II: ff.189. A made-up copy, several leaves remargined, both titles wanting some ornamentation, light stains and marginal worming. Uniform modern calf. Folio

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