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(FRANCE). Seder HaKuntress [compendium of selected festive prayers throughout the year]. Includes Passover Hagadah. According to the rite of the Holy Communities of the Comtat Venaissin. Edited by Isaiah Vidal and Mordechai Ventura. Printer’s mark on title. ff. 59 (i.e. 56). Browned, Seder foodstains in usual places. Marbled endpapers. Contemporary mottled calf gilt, rubbed, covers loose. Lg. 4to. Vinograd, Avignon 1. Avignon, n.p. 1765. A legacy of the distinctive Provençal Jewish tradition. Compendium of selected Festive prayers throughout the year, with a complete Passover Hagadah including Seder hymns unrecorded elsewhere. A distinctively emblematic text of the particularly localized Jewish custom and practice that evolved in the Jewish communities of Avignon and neighboring territories in Provence. The volume contains the fullest collection of ‘Obros’ - the macaronic poems of which alternate lines are in Hebrew and in Judeo-Provençal. See C. Roth, The Liturgies of Avignon and the Comtat Venaissin in: Journal of Jewish Bibliography (1939) pp. 99-105. See also New York Public Library Catalogue, A Sign and a Witness (1988) no. 170 (illustrated).