Festival Machzor for the entire year according to the Ashkenazi Rite, Part one.
Venice, 1756. At the Bragadin press.
Machzor for weekdays, Sabbath, fast days, Passover & Shavout. With additional prayers for festivals & special Sabbath days. Including Megilath Ruth & Echa. With Passover Hagaddah on leaves 175-188. On leaf 181 are illustrations of Matzah & Maror. Includes Pirkei Avot with Italian translation.
Special Copy: The machzor is bound with empty pages at the beginning. On some of the pages, there is an ancient manuscript (more than 8 pages) from the time of printing the prayer book, with additional pieces of paper added and adhered to the book as supplements to be written. The manuscript was written by Yehuda Mazliach, son of Benjamin Shmarya Padova, and it contains the history of his family. The writer was from an important rabbinical family in Italy; within his writings, he mentions his two uncles who were Dayanim in Padova, Rabbi Moshe son of Rabbi Menachem Azariah of Padova, and Rabbi Menashe Yehoshua son of Rabbi Yehuda Mazliach, who was a rabbi in Modena. Approbation from Rabbi Menashe Yehoshua son of Rabbi Yehuda Mazliach is found in the sefer ‘Todat Shlamim’ on the laws of Niddah, along Lachmei Todah from Rabbi Yeshayahu Basan, where it is mentioned that he is the son-in-law of Rabbi Yeshayahu Basan.
His father, Rabbi Yehuda Mazliach, was also a rabbi in Modena, and he authored the sefer Behitasef Roshei Am (Venice, 1820). Also, in the seforim of Rabbi Chaim Ben Atar, the Ohr HaChaim Hakadosh on the Torah and Piri Eitz Chaim that were printed in Venice in 1742, there are approbations from him. In those seforim of the Ohr HaChaim, there is also an approbation from Rabbi Menachem Azariah, son of Rabbi Yehuda of Padova. Apparently, the father of the aforementioned Rabbi Moshe, who was a rabbi in Mantua. The writer was also closely related to Rabbi Shmuel Nachmani, who ascended to Jerusalem with Rabbi Chaim Ben Atar, the Ohr HaChaim, and passed away while staying with the Ohr HaChaim in Acre in 1742, and efforts were made by the Ohr HaChaim to bury him in the holy place.
The writer also mentions in the present manuscript, among other things, that his eldest son was redeemed by Rabbi Yishmael Hakohen from Modena, one of the great sages of Italy and the author of responsa ‘Zera Emet, ‘ who lived during the printing of the prayer book.
In splendid condition, printed on special white paper with wide margins, gilt edges. Bound in original green leather with pure silver clasps, the spine is slightly worn. One clasp is somewhat loose.
115, [5], 118-119, 121-392 Leaves. 19.5 Cm.
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