Prayers for the entire year. Acccording to Italian rite. Two volumes. Hagadah portionwith charming illustrations of matzah and maror on p. 146 of Vol. I.
Elaborate contemporary calf-backed gilt marbled boards, with initials “E.F.” within a gilt garland, gauffered edges.
(i.e. 283). * Vol. II: ff. (2), 3-322. With slip-cases (lacking top half of one slipcase).
8vo.
The Italian prayer rite is among the few that retained some signifi cant vestiges of the pre-Crusader Palestinian rite. It is also characterised by a deep interest in liturgical poetry and midrashic compilations. In this rite, “the exegetical and liturgical interests of the two major centers are...seen to... come together nicely.”
Venice, Bragadin: 1772.
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