Machzor. According to Roman rite. With Kimcha De’Avishona by Yochanan Treves and commentaries by Ovadiah Sforno and Moses Maimonides.

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Menachem ben Abraham of Modena & Partners

Bologna

1540

Two volumes. Titles within elaborate frames, many initial letters within cartouches. Finely composed manuscript leaf added as the third to last folio of Vol. I comprising an elegy in accordance with the custom of community of Ferrara. Many marginal notes, especially in Vol. 11 in which additional piyutim are transcribed.

Vinograd, Bologna 16.

Prayers for the entire year, including Passover Hagadah, Ethics of the Fathers; along with the Song of Songs, Ruth, Lamentations, Jonah and Ecclesiastes and various laws relating to birth, family purity, marriage, burial, etc. Includes the first appearance of Treves’s 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 LeMachzor Bnei Roma, with notes and additional material by Daniel Goldschmidt and a bibliography by Y. Y. Cohen (Tel-Aviv, 1966).