Machzor shel Yom HaKippurim [prayers for the Day of Atonement]. According to Sephardic custom.

(LITURGY).

Moncalvo

Mid-19th century

Manuscript in Hebrew on paper, written in Italian square type with Nikud. Scribe: Joseph Aaron (Beth Baruch). With over-slips and many other corrections and marginal additions inserted over the decades. Title within architectural border highlighted in red.

The Jewish community of Moncalvo, a small town in the Piedmont region of Northern Italy, belonged to a group of three communities known as Apa’m (Asti, Fossano, Moncalvo) which treasured a unique liturgy resulting from the combined influences of ancient French, Provencal and German rites. The primary differences from other rituals are limited to the prayers on the Days of Awe and the accompanying melodies. There are no printed texts of this liturgy and only the officiating Cantor had use of a complete copy of the manuscript text. For more on this rite, see Y.D. Markon, Ma’amar al Machzor Minhag Apa’m, in: George Kohut Festschrift (New York, 1935), pp. 89-101; and EJ, Vol. XII, cols. 240-41.