Auction 103 Part 1 Jewish Ceremonial Art | Illustrated Scrolls and Manuscripts | Engravings and Graphic Art | Ketubot | Hebraica
Sep 1, 2025
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Auction 103 Part 1 Jewish Ceremonial Art | Illustrated Scrolls and Manuscripts | Engravings and Graphic Art | Ketubot | Hebraica
Sep 1, 2025
Opening: $300
Sold for: $688
Including buyer's premium
Manuscript, calendar, with tekufot and moladot, customs, Christian holidays and dates of fairs, beginning in 1818 – for over 400 years. [Central Europe], 1819.
Neat Ashkenazic square and semi-cursive script. Calendar for all years from 5578 (1817-1818) until 6000 (2239-2240).
Most of the fairs are in cities in Prussia, Bohemia, Moravia, Hungary and Austria.
[1], 39, [1] leaves (leaf 39 empty). 19.5 cm. Good condition. Stains and wear. Original binding, with defects.
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Illustrated Manuscripts, Associations' Ledgers and Various Manuscripts
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Auction 103 Part 1 Jewish Ceremonial Art | Illustrated Scrolls and Manuscripts | Engravings and Graphic Art | Ketubot | Hebraica
Sep 1, 2025
Opening: $2,000
Sold for: $2,500
Including buyer's premium
Five Samaritan manuscripts, including Samaritan machzorim for Pesach, seventh day of Pesach, Samaritan siddurim for weekdays and Shabbat, and a halachic book:
1. Passover machzor, including prayers for the day of the sacrifice of the Paschal offering and the following day, and prayers for Shabbat and Passover holiday, and songs for the days of the festival. [Jaffa], 1906-1907. Hebrew (Samaritan script) and some Arabic. Black and red ink on paper (with some pencil additions).
Four colophons.
[149] leaves. 22 cm.
2. Machzor for night and day of the seventh day of Passover. [Shechem], 1912. Hebrew (Samaritan script) and some Arabic. Black and purple ink on paper.
Two colophons.
[96] leaves. 15.5 cm.
3. Weekday and Shabbat siddur, with prayers for Rosh Chodesh, other occasions, and various additions. [Shechem], 1911. Hebrew (Samaritan script) and some Arabic. Black and red ink on paper (with additions in pencil).
Colophon.
[233] leaves. 19 cm.
4. Weekday and Shabbat siddur, with prayers for Rosh Chodesh and other occasions. [Shechem], 1945-1950. Hebrew (Samaritan script) and some Arabic. Black and red ink on paper (with later additions in blue ink).
Produced by several copyists. Four colophons. Some leaves bound out of order.
[304] leaves. 19.5 cm.
5. Al-Kafi, halachic work on Shabbat, forbidden foods year-round and on Passover, laws of purity, inheritance and more. [Shechem], 1878. Arabic, with some Hebrew (in Samaritan script). Black and purple ink on paper.
[137] leaves. 21.5 cm.
5 manuscripts. Varying condition, fair-good to fair-poor. Stains. Wear. Worming (much heavy worming to two of them, affecting text in many places). Tears, including open tears in several places. Detached leaves and gatherings in several places. Fading of ink. Old and original bindings (one volume in original leather bindings, some in bindings with leather spines). Wear and defects to bindings.
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Illustrated Manuscripts, Associations' Ledgers and Various Manuscripts
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