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. The Valmadonna Trust Copy, in a distictive elegant binding. Vol. IV with ownership note dated 1717.

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 8th-century, breaking with Rabbinic tradition by rejecting the Talmud and declaring Biblical law to be the sole basis of Judaism. Karaite liturgy dictates for two daily prayer services, in the morning and evening. 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, along with liturgical poetry unknown to Rabbinic rites. See: EJ, X cols.780-1.