Lot 315
Machzor with Kimcha De’avishona Commentary – Bologna – 1540 – Complete Two-Volume Set
Machzor according to the custom of Rome with Kimcha De’avishona commentary. Contains: Passover Haggadha, Tractate Avot with commentaries of the Rambam of Rabbi Ovadia of Sforno. Parts 1-2 [separate title page for each section]. Bologna, [1540].
Corrections of versions and handwritten glosses. Many Christian censor erasures [most places are legible. Several places have ink erosion]. One pamphlet has a double leaf, one has variations in the censor erasures from the second copy of the same leaf. Added to the end of Volume 2 is a handwritten leaf with a prayer for rain during years of drought.
Among the most important machzorim printed in Italy. First edition of Kimcha De’avishova commentary; comprehensive commentary on the prayers and piyutim, by Rabbi Yochanan son of Rabbi Yosef Trivish [the commentary was printed anonymously; colophon at end of book: “We have found a wise and sagacious person who out of modesty concealed his name in his introduction although it is public knowledge who he is…”.] For further information concerning other copies of this machzor, some with the name of the commentary's author, see the Bibliography Institute CD Listing 0172349.
Complete two-volume copy. [200 + 1 double leaf; 190 + 1 double leaf] leaves. 27-27.5 cm. Varying condition, Volume A – overall fair condition, spotting and wear, few tears. Cutoff margins. First title page with damages and restorations, many worn and restored leaves, with lacking text. Volume B – good condition. New elaborate leather bindings.
The colophon: "It was completed on Erev Succot 1541. Less than twenty Hebrew books were printed in Bologna. This Machzor is one of the last books printed there.
