Set of machzorim according to Carpentras rite (France), for Yom Kippur, the Three Festivals and the Four Fasts and Parashiot. Amsterdam: Hertz Levi Rofe (Yom Kippur), and Partners Hertz Levi Rofe and son-in-law Kosman (Three Festivals and Fasts), [1739-1762]. Three of four volumes, without Rosh Hashanah volume. First edition.

The Carpentras prayer and piyyut rites are unique to the southeast French community. Its text was copied in manuscript machzorim for community members until the local scribes were no longer able to meet the demand. At that point a young local Torah scholar named R. Avraham son of Shmuel de Monteux (Montel) began to print the unique Carpentras prayer rite. The two high holiday volumes were printed first, in 600 copies only, and is therefore particularly rare (the first volume, for Rosh Hashanah, is not in the present set).

Three volumes. Volume I (Three Festivals): [2], 21, 18-30, [1], 31-33, [1], 34-149, [4], 150-219 leaves. Without [3] final leaves (customs of the L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue community, found in some copies only). Several leaves appear twice: 22, 33 (with slight differences), 139. Volume II (Yom Kippur): [2], 185 leaves. Volume III (Four Fasts and Four Parashiot): [2], 3, 5-151, [1] leaves. 17-19 cm. Gilt edges in first volume. Good to good-fair condition. Stains, including dampstains. Light wear to some leaves. Small marginal tears to several leaves. First volume in original red leather binding, with gilt decorations; other two volumes in early leather bindings, worn and damaged.

There are several variants of the Three Festivals volume. Some copies, including the present one, contain the text of Birkat HaMazon, and have different pagination (as documented in the Bibliography of the Hebrew Book).