Auction 74 · Lot 143

Tephilah kephi Minhag Roma [prayers for the entire year]. According to Roman rite.

Estimate: $2,000–$3,000
Hammer price: $2,750

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

author

(LITURGY)

printer

Company of Silk Weavers

Place

Bologna

Publication

1537-38

Description

The Israel Mehlman copy with his notes on opening paste-down.

references

Vinograd, Bologna 9; Steinschneider, Cat. Bodl. no. 2074, col. 307.

summary

No complete paper copy of this Machzor is extant. For the vellum issue see Pierpont Morgan Library Catalogue, Hebraica from the Valmadonna Trust (1989) no. 27. The second of only nine books printed by the Jewish Silk Weaver’s Guild who operated a Hebrew Press at Bologna between 1537 and 1540. Each work was beautifully prepared, a tribute to the involvement of Jewish artisans and craftsmen in the formative years of Hebrew printing. See S.C. Reif, Judaism and Hebrew Prayer (1993) pp. 164-66; Amram, The Makers of Hebrew Books in Italy, pp. 232-35.

ff. 282 (of 352). Variously stained, many leaves remargined. Many leaves provided in facsimile (collation available upon request). Modern calf. Thick 12mo.

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