TWO VOLUME SET. RARE descriptive and thematic catalog of all manuscript music sources of synagogue music prior to 1840 (when the massive publications of printed scores began) by Israel Adler (1925-2009) - the founder and former head of the Jewish Music Research Centre (JMRC) at the Faculty of Humanities of the Hebrew University, which he directed from 1964 to 1969 and from 1971 to 2000. [BOTH VOLUMES]: 245x170mm. LXXXII+899 (pagination: LXXXII+578/579-899). Hardcover with dust-jacket. Gilt lettering on front cover and spine. Jacket slightly dirty. Spine edges very slightly bumped. [VOL.I]: Jacket spine wrinkled. Jacket spine edges slightly tattered. [SUMMARY]: This extremely rare comprehensive two volume catalog of Jewish music, the result of two decades of intense search by an eminent Israeli musicologist, is in very good condition.