Auction 97 Part 2 Rare and Important Items

Siddur for Festivals – Venice, 1603 – Only Extant Copy

Opening: $10,000
Estimate: $15,000 - $25,000
Sold for: $18,750
Including buyer's premium

Festival siddur. Venice: Zuan (Giovanni) di Gara for Piero (Pietro) Bragadin, 1603.
Siddur for festivals, according to the Sephardi rite. Includes the Passover Haggadah, with parts of the text printed in Ladino.
Hoshanot and Azharot for Shavuot printed with a commentary selected by R. Shneur Falcon from the commentary of R. Shimon Duran (Rashbatz).
A comment by R. Menachem Azariah (Rama) of Fano is printed in the Hakafot for Hoshana Rabba (p. 124a), regarding the interchange of the Hakafah of Yosef with that of Pinchas.


264 leaves. 14.5 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains, including dampstains. Tears to several leaves, including small open tears to title page, affecting illustrated frame and text of several leaves, partially repaired with paper. Worming, affecting text. Close trimming, affecting top of title frame. New binding.


This edition is recorded in the Bibliography of the Hebrew Book based on the present copy and does not appear in Haberman and Yudlov's book on Giovanni di Gara. The present item is apparently the only extant complete copy.
Formerly of the collection of Dr. Israel Mehlman.

Early Siddurim and Machzorim
Early Siddurim and Machzorim