Obj. ID: 37339
  Printed Books  Machzor shel Kol ha-Shanah...., Venice, 1750

This text was prepared by William Gross:

This is one part of a two volume Machzor printed in Venice in 1750 according to the Italian rite. The title page is preceded by a frontispiece of the Pesach feast from the hand of the artist Griselini, born in Venice, who lived as an academic and journalist, but later worked as an artist. There are several Hebrew publications with his engravings.
In 1550 Alvise Bragadin established a Hebrew press in Venice, thus ending a brief monopoly in Hebrew printing in Venice enjoyed by Guistiani (after the closing of the Bomberg press). This press continued as one of Venice’s leading Hebrew print-shops, issuing Hebrew titles in the 18th C under several generations of Bragadins (the last of whom was Alvise III). Throughout the years, the output of the Bragadini press was considerable, and covered the gamut of Hebrew works. The press was somewhat unusual, however, in that the Bragadins themselves did not always take an active role in their printing-house, leaving its operation to other printers, and lending their name to other presses.