Jacob Joshua Katzigin
Mahzor (Festival Prayer Book) for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur According to the Rite of Asti, Fossano, and Moncalvo

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Mahzor (Festival Prayer Book) for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur According to the Rite of Asti, Fossano, and Moncalvo
CalligrapherItalian (Piedmontese)
CultureItalian (Piedmontese)
Titles
  • Mahzor (Festival Prayer Book) for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur According to the Rite of Asti, Fossano, and Moncalvo
Date1800
MediumInk on laid paper in gilt-tooled brown leather cover with brass clasps
DimensionsOpen: 1 13/16 × 17 1/16 × 10 7/8 in. (4.6 × 43.3 × 27.7 cm)
 Closed: 1 1/4 × 17 1/16 × 23 7/16 in. (3.2 × 43.3 × 59.6 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Director's Accessions Endowment
Object number2023.610
Non exposé

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Department
Prints and Drawings
Object Type
ProvenanceThe scribe, Jacob Joshua Katzigin of Asti, 1800; Emiglio Abram Montalcini, Asti; Moses ben Joshua Hai (Moise di Salvador Vita) Montalcini, Asti, as of 1819; Aaron Freimann (1871-1948), Frankfurt am Main, Germany(1); Abraham Halpern (1936-2017)(2); [Sotheby’s New York, The Halpern Judaica Collection: Tradition and Treasure, Part III, Dec. 14, 2023, lot 83]; purchased by MFAH, Dec. 14, 2023.
(1) Historian, librarian, and bookseller Aron Freimann of Frankfurt am Main became chief of the Hebrew department of the Stadtbibliotek Frankfurt in 1897, and in that position he helped the library build one of the world’s foremost collections of Judaica and Hebraica. In 1938, five years after the rise of the Nazi Party forced him to retire, Freimann immigrated to the United States, where he served as a consultant to the New York Public Library from 1939 to 1945.

(2) Abraham Halpen began collecting Judaica in the 1970s, amassing holdings that encompassed silver, textiles, books, and manuscripts. He loaned to important exhibitions including Sephardic Journey, 1492-1992 and Ashkenaz: The German Jewish Heritage, both held at the Yeshiva University Museum, and had many of his purchases featured in Jay Weinstein’s seminal 1985 publication A Collector’s Guide to Judaica.

Exhibition HistoryNone known
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Name inscribed on first page, recto upper center in ink: Emiglio abram montalcini / di [cursive]
Name inscribed twice on last page, recto, bottom right in ink: Moise / Montalcini [cursive]
Alphabet inscribed on first page, verso bottom right in ink: abcdefghilmno / pqrstuvyz [cursive]
Name inscribed on last page, recto, bottom left in ink: MOISE MONTALCINI
Watermark: front page, center
Catalogue raisonnéNone

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