Following the rites of Carpentras, town in Vaucluse department, France, about 14 mi. (22 km.) N.E. of Avignon. The community was one of the Four Communities of the Comtat Venaissin which had a specific liturgy based on the old Provencal rite. Long preserved only in manuscript, the volumes for the High Holidays, the Festivals and the fast days (this lot) according to the Carpentras rite were printed in Amsterdam. A literary style particularly in vogue in Carpentras and the Comtat Venaissin generally was poems of a popular character in which Hebrew words or verses were interspersed with the Provencal text.