Machzor KeMinhag Roma [festival prayers for the entire year]. According to Italian rite. Includes Passover Hagadah, Ethics of the Fathers, Five Scrolls and laws relating to Festivals.

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Jacob Cohen of Gazolo

Mantua

1557-60

DELUXE COPY, PRINTED ENTIRELY ON BLUE PAPER. Parts I and II bound in one volume. Title within architectural arch. Initial letters within cartouches, f.48b (Hagadah) with woodcut illustrations of cuffed hands pointing to Matzah and Bitter Herbs. Printed in two columns. Censors signatures on final leaf. The Salman Schocken copy.

Vinograd, Mantua 42; Y.Y. Cohen, Bibliographia shel Machzorim…Lephi Minhag Bnai Roma (1966), no. 9.

RARE, BIBLIOPHILIC EDITION. PRINTED ENTIRELY ON BLUE PAPER. Although the title states "chelek rishon", in reality it contains Part II as well. The first part concludes at the end of the first column on f. 117 and Part II begins on the second column. After having served at the press of Foa in Sabbioneta, Jacob Cohen of Gazolo came to Mantua in 1556 and over the following eight years established a “splendid record for good typographical work.” D. Amram The Makers of Hebrew Books in Italy, p. 325. See Treasures of the Valmadonna Trust Library - Otzroth Ya’akov, Colored Paper no. 13.