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Auction 68 · Lot 141

Machzor LeYamim Noraim [prayers for the Days of Awe]. According to Aschkenazic rite.

Estimate
$700–$1,000
Hammer price
$500

Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.

author

(LITURGY).

Place

Asti (Italy)

Publication

1891

Description

Manuscript in Hebrew, written on paper in a square hand with Nikud, by Raphael ben Mordechai Moshe Luzzatti.

summary

Asti, located in the Piedmont region of north-western Italy, boasted its own particular rite, (see lot 138 for Apa’m.)serving a community in which barely 100 souls resided.
ff. 102. Brittle, heavily torn in places, paper acidic with resulting corruption. Loose in contemporary boards, worn. Folio. Sold not subject to return.
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