Auction 50
Lot 053:
Seder Yamim Nora’im following the minhag of Carpentras, second section for Yom Kippur. Printed by Hertz Levi Rofeh for Rabbi Avraham Montil. [2]. 185 leaves. National Library categorizes it as rare. See Stefanski Sifrei Yesod, appendix for Shaarei Tefila, p. 167. See S. Schwartzfolks, Alei Sefer 6-7 (1979), p. 145-47, where he writes that Avraham ben Shmuel (Montil) printed only 600 copies, with great difficulty, and that in some copies he later added additional leaves.
Before us is one copy that survives from that limited edition, and seems likely to be faithful to the original printing without the addition of pages. New leather binding in an antique style, stains, overall rare condition (especially relative to prayerbooks, which are used frequently and fall apart quickly).
Antique notes of ownership on the title page.
The Jewish community of Carpentras was an ancient community in southeastern France (today in the Vaucluse department), in the Provence/Alp-Cote d’Azur region.
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