Machzor Shaar Bat Rabim – Venice, 1711-1715 – Complete Set in Two Volumes

Machzor Shaar Bat Rabim – Venice, 1711-1715 – Complete Set in Two Volumes

Machzor Shaar Bat Rabim, Part I – prayers for weekdays, Shabbat, Rosh Chodesh and festivals, and Part II – prayers for the high holidays and festivals of Tishrei, "following the rite of the Ashkenazi community", with the Hadrat Kodesh commentary by R. Yitzchak son of R. Yaakov Yosef HaLevi. Venice: Bragadin, [1711-1715]. Complete set. Two parts in two volumes.
Finely engraved title pages at the beginning of parts I and II.
This elegant machzor was published at the initiative of the Italian communities, who undertook to buy the printed copies. The machzor was printed and sold in individual gatherings.
Yiddish inscriptions in both volumes.

Two volumes. Volume I: 360 leaves. Volume II: 372, 377-384 leaves. Approx. 40-41 cm. Volume I and beginning of volume II in fair condition, most leaves of volume II in good-fair condition. Stains. Many dampstains and traces of former dampness in both volumes, with heavy mold stains (to many leaves in first volume). Many wax stains in the Book of Eichah. Wear and creases to some leaves. Tears, including open tears affecting text. Title page of volume II detached, with tears. Some worming. Early bindings (uniform), leather-coated wood. Much damage and wear to bindings, and tears to spines (front binding and spine of second volume detached).