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Roman-Rite Machzor – Mantua, 1718-1719 – Handwritten Glosses – Incomplete Copy with Defects
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Roman-rite machzor, Parts I-II, with laws and additions by R. Avraham Yedidiah Basilea. Mantua: Yitzchak Yare and Yaakov Chaver Tov, [1718-1719]. Both parts in one volume, in large format.
On leaves of machzor, glosses in Italian script, with additions, textual variants, comments, and notes of laws and customs. The writer is a Torah scholar from Lugo, Italy, who often refers to the local custom.
The writer mentions rabbis of Lugo several times: R. Yeshayah Romanin (d. 1765) and R. Shlomo David del Vecchio (MehaZekenim; d. 1823). R. Yeshayah Romanin is mentioned once with a blessing for the living and twice with a blessing for the deceased, while R. Shlomo David del Vecchio is mentioned with a blessing for the living.
Inscription in another hand on p. 72a of second sequence.
Italian inscription on last endpaper.
Incomplete copy with defects. Part I: [2], 2-5, 13-14, 16-18, 21-23, 25-48, 50, 55, 65-117 leaves. Lacking 26 leaves: 1, 6-12, 15, 19-20, 24, 49, 51-54, 56-64. Part II: 92, [1] leaves. 31 cm. Fair-poor condition. Stains, including dampstains and dark wax stains. Heavy wear. Tears and open tears to many leaves, affecting text in many places. Two leaves of Part I detached and damaged, with many creases and large open tears. Many tears and open tears also to first leaves of Part II and other places. Several leaves detached. Early leather binding, with defects, loose.
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