Selections from The Valmadonna Trust Library: Highly Important Hebrew Printed Books
Nov 10, 2017
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LOT 161:
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Sold for: $7,500
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Pirkei Avoth [Ethics of the Fathers]. With commentaries by Moses Maimonides and Ovadiah Sforno.
Originally a part of the Bologna Machzor, issued in accordance to Roman rite.
Printed entirely on vellum. Initial words set within elegant frame. Conservator’s notes at end. Formerly, the Sholem Asch copy. ff. (24). A quote concerning the nature of the Jews’ exilic impurity written on final page. Expert marginal repairs, few light stains. Later calf, recased, modern dust-jacket and custom slip-case. Folio. Vinograd, Bologna 16; Freimannn, Pergamentdrucke ZfHB Vol. 15 no. 63.
Menachem ben Abraham of Modena & Partners, (Bologna: 1540).
Rare vellum issue. Comprises leaves 117-141 from Vol. I of the Bologna 1540 Machzor (see lot 143).
See Treasures of the Valmadonna Trust Library - Otzroth Ya’akov, Vellum no. 15.
