Selichoth [penitential prayers].

Estimate: $30,000–$50,000
Hammer price: $30,000

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

author

(LITURGY).

printer

Chaim Schwartz (Shachor)

Place

Augsburg

Publication

1536

Description

According to Aschkenazi rite. Printed without a title page. Initial text page enclosed within elaborate historiated woodcut border. Censored in places with text often re-inserted in manuscript. Manuscript table of contents in rear written in a contemporary scribal hand in red and black. Several early signatures. Marginalia throughout.

references

Vinograd, Augsburg 9; M.N. Rosenfeld, Augsburg 45.

summary

The first Selichoth printed in Germany. A highly scarce volume. Relying on the Italian Selichoth issued by Gershom Soncino (Fano, 1506), this edition includes for the first time additional material for a specific Aschkenaz readership, as well as texts corrected from previous censorship.

ff. (121). Short tears and few neat paper repairs, some wear from use, few stains. Modern crushed morocco, gilt extra, in custom slipcase. Folio.

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