Sepher MaHaRI”L [Jewish laws and customs for the entire year according to Aschkenazi rite].

Estimate: $1,000–$1,500
Hammer price: $1,200

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author

MOELLIN, JACOB BEN MOSES HALEVI.

printer

Vicenzo Conti

Place

Cremona

Publication

1558

Description

Second edition. Inscriptions on title-page and signed by censors at end. Leaves 105-7 with extensive marginalia concerning Shechitah, and elsewhere.

references

Vinograd, Cremona 23.

summary

The most important source of Aschkenazi ritual custom (Minhag), both within and outside synagogue life. The work paints a most faithful picture of the religious and social worlds of German Jewry of the 14th-15th centuries.

ff. 120. Stained in places. Bound in Valmadonna-custom crushed morocco, spine in compartments and titled in gilt. Sm. 4to.

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