Abraham Monteil Editor (1 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. In Hebrew. [Inscription on title page:] 14 aoust 1768 ce livre apartien a Elie gabriel delpuget. Vinograd THESAURUS, volume 2, page 71. Amsterdam number 1822. (Slihot) 82 leaves. ff.82. LAST TWO LEAVES ARE FACSIMILES. Stained with very minor worming. 4to. Abraham Monteil, editor of this prayer book, was a native of L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, smallest of The Four Holy Communities of Comtat Venaissin, the paper territory in Southern France that historically provided a safe haven for Jews fleeing the provinces of Languedoc and Provence, from whence they were expelled by the French monarchs. (The other three communities were: Avignon, Carpentras, and Cavaillon.). The Jews of the Comtat had their own synagogue rite, which Cecil Roth notes were "of very considerable historical and literary interest." According to Roth (see page 85 in his Studies in Books and Booklore cited blow), See C. Roth, "The Liturgy of Avignon and the Comtat Venaissin, "Journal of Jewish Bibliography I (1939), pages 99-105; reprinted in Cecil Roth, Studies in Books and Booklore (1972), pages 81-87; EJ, Volume V, columns 208, 859; Volume IX, columns 105; Volume XI, column 402.…