b'153 (LITURGY) Shaar Bath Rabim [prayers for festivals]. According to Aschkenazi rite. With commentary Hadrath Kodesh by Isaac Segal of Herrlisheim. Introduction by Isaac Pacico. Two parts in four volumes. Titles within extravagantly engraved borders. Illustrations of signs of the Zodiac on ff. 175-7. Marginalia written in various hands, mostly providing variations on the liturgy esp. Vol. IV.WIDE-MARGINED COPY ON THICKER PAPER.Vol I: 228. * Vol. II: (1), 229-360. * Vol. III: 193. * Vol. IV:194-384. Occasional stains and wear from use, few leaves with marginal paper repairs. Later roan-backed boards, stained and scuffed. Folio. [Vinograd, Venice 1596.] Venice, Bragadin, 1710-17. $2000 - $3000 This extraordinarily large Machzor was printed for the use of the Hazan at the request of the Aschkenazic congregations of a number of leading Italian communities: Venice, Padua, Rovigo, Verona, Mantua, Casale Monferrato and Gorizia. Due to the enormous expense involved in this publishing endeavor, preceding the volumes customary rabbinic endorsements, two Italian magisterial documents appear, providing copyright protection for twelve years.In his commentary, R. Isaac Segal, who served as cantor in the town of Herrlisheim, not only reects upon the texts of the prayers, but also provides a compilation of laws and customs based upon Aschkenazic source material.Segal defends the recitation of the somewhat controversial piyut Malachei Rachamim that beseeches God via the mediation of angels. The issue is treated at length by R. Isaac Lampronti in his encyclopedic work, Pachad Yitzchak, s.v. tzerachav. For a full discussion, see S. Sprecher HaPulmus al Amirath Machnisei Rachamim in: Yeshurun, Vol. III (1997) pp. 706-29154LURIA,SOLOMONBENYECHIEL(MaHaRSHaL).Shailoth Uteshuvoth [responsa]. Second edition. Title within architectural arch. ff. 72 (i.e. ff. 70 - mispaginated). Title laid down portion in facsimile, marginal paper repairs, few leaves supplied from another copy. Browned, trace marginal worming. Modern calf-backed marbled boards. Folio. [Vinograd, Lublin 76.] Lublin, Kalonymus ben Mordechai Jaffe, 1599. $800 - $1200 R. Solomon Luria (1510-73) was an iconoclast in his time, displaying a surprising assertiveness and independence in his Halachic rulings, often castigating his rabbinical opponents. The present responsa are historically important for the cultural life of the Jews of Poland and Lithuania - including many examples of colloquial Old Yiddish.See responsum no. 21 for a deposition regarding a pre-marital dispute and the MaHaRSHaLs warning to the Judges they punish the correct guilty party. Responsum no. 33, defending a wronged woman and curses the antagonist that he be buried like a donkey if he does not retract his words. Responsum no. 29 contains signicant genealogical material concerning the chronology of many distinguished German and French scholars from Rabbeinu Gershom through the 14th century77'