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Auction 103 Part 1 Jewish Ceremonial Art | Illustrated Scrolls and Manuscripts | Engravings and Graphic Art | Ketubot | Hebraica
Elegant Silver-Bound Machzor – Turin, Early 19th Century
Opening: $2,000
Sold for: $4,000
Including buyer's premium
Machzor bound in decorated silver binding. [Turin, Italy, early 19th century].
Silver, repoussé, engraved, cast and cut; with assayer marks of Giuseppe Vernoni (active 1814-1824 in Turin, Kingdom of Sardinia), standard marks; print on paper; leather.
Machzor bound in original leather binding, covered with an elaborate silver binding. Both sides of binding decorated identically, with frames decorated in a rich vegetal pattern, with large floral decorations in the center. Spine divided into five parts and decorated in matching vegetal pattern. Pair of silver clasps.
The book: Year-round machzor according to the Italian rite, Part I. [Venice: Bragadin, 1772]. Inscriptions in Italian script on front endpapers: family inscriptions from Rome, ca. 1850s-1860s, and Yotzer for Shabbat Chol HaMoed Pesach by R. Michael Chaim di Segni [R. Michael Chaim di Segni was Chief Rabbi of Rome from 1750 until his passing in 1772]. Glosses, inscriptions and additions to margins of many leaves in volume.
Machzor: 2-135, 176-271 leaves. Copy lacking 54 leaves (title page and leaves 136-175, 272-284). 16.5 cm. Gilt edges. Fair-good condition. Stains, creases and wear. Tears and open tears, affecting text. Inscriptions to endpapers. Glosses and additions. Leather-coated silver binding.
Binding: 13X17.5 cm. Good condition.
Silver Bindings and Decorated Bindings
Silver Bindings and Decorated Bindings