Bidspirit auction | (LITURGY). Selichoth [penitential prayers]. According

(LITURGY). Selichoth [penitential prayers]. According to Aschkenazi rite. Printed without a title page. Initial text page enclosed within elaborate historiated woodcut border. Censored in places with text often provided in manuscript. Manuscript table of contents in rear written in a contemporary scribal hand in red and black. Several early signatures. Marginalia throughout. ff. (121). Short tears and few neat paper repairs, some wear from use, few stains. Modern crushed morocco, gilt extra, in custom slipcase. Folio. Vinograd, Augsburg 9; M.N. Rosenfeld, Augsburg 45; Stefansky, Sifrei Yesod 437. Augsburg, Chaim Schwartz (Shachor), 1536. The First Selichoth Printed in Germany. A Highly Scarce Volume. Relying on the Italian Selichoth issued by Gershom Soncino (Fano, 1506), this edition includes, for the first time, material for a specific Aschkenazi usership, as well as texts corrected as a result of prior censorship.