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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Auction 103 Part 1 Jewish Ceremonial Art | Illustrated Scrolls and Manuscripts | Engravings and Graphic Art | Ketubot | Hebraica
Sep 1, 2025
Opening: $400
Unsold
Bilder-Pentateuch von Moses dal Castellazzo, Venedig 1521, facsimile of an illuminated manuscript with illustrations of the Torah, by Moses dal Castellazzo, Venice 1521. Vienna and Cologne: Bernthaler & Windischgraetz, 1983-1986. Copy no. 194 of a 950-copy print run.
Includes commentary volume in German, French, Italian and Polish.
Facsimile of a 1521 illuminated Torah manuscript (Jewish Historical Institute of Warsaw, Codex 1164). An illustration covers most of each leaf (at times two facing illustrations). The top of the leaf quotes the verse depicted, and the bottom has a brief description of the illustration in Italian.
Facsimile: [123] leaves. 19.5X23.5 cm (wide format). Commentary volume: 183 pages, including [40] plates. Good condition. Light stains. Facsimile in leather binding (with paper bookplate on spine labeled "Codex 1164"), and commentary volume in fabric binding. Stains and minor defects to binding.
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Facsimiles of Important 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: $250
Sold for: $750
Including buyer's premium
Keter Aram Tzova, the Aleppo Codex – the most important Biblical manuscript. Elaborate numbered facsimile edition. Jerusalem: Hebrew University, 1976. Copy no. 275 of first 500 copies.
[4], 588, [4] pages. 42.5 cm. Good condition. Light stains. Elaborate original leather binding, with light wear and stains.
Includes booklet by publisher, Moshe Goshen-Gottstein.
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Facsimiles of Important 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: $400
Sold for: $1,875
Including buyer's premium
The Rothschild Miscellany. An elaborate facsimile produced by the Israel Museum and Facsimile Editions, Jerusalem-London, 1989. Copy no. 69, of a limited edition of 500 copies (altogether 550 copies were printed, including 50 AP – Ad Personam copies, which are identical to the regular copies).
The Rothschild Miscellany, commissioned by Moshe son of Yekutiel HaKohen in 1479, is considered the most lavish of all Hebrew manuscripts. The Miscellany comprises more than 37 religious and secular works, including: Tehillim, Mishlei, Iyov, a year-round prayer book with the Passover Haggadah, and philosophical, moralistic and scientific treatises. The works are illustrated with vignettes relating to the text and ornate gold-leaf initial words.
Elaborate leather-bound facsimile, slipcased.
Facsimile: [473] leaves. Slipcase: 24 cm. Good condition. Defects to binding and slipcase. Heavy wear and defects to spine and its sides. Leather clasps of slipcase damaged and torn.
Does not include accompanying commentary volume.
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Facsimiles of Important Manuscripts
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