Auction 103 Part 1 Jewish Ceremonial Art | Illustrated Scrolls and Manuscripts | Engravings and Graphic Art | Ketubot | Hebraica

Leaf from Parchment Machzor Manuscript – Ashkenazic Lands, 14th Century

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Leaf from a parchment machzor manuscript. [Ashkenazic lands, ca. 14th century].
Large-format parchment leaf. Square Ashkenazic script, vocalized, on both sides of leaf. Letters in large script, 17 lines per page.
This leaf was reused as a binding or a folder, but is preserved almost in its entirety, apart from several defects and tears.
The leaf features a section from a kerovah piyyut by R. Moshe son of R. Kalonymus, recited in Ashkenazic communities at Shacharit of the eighth day of Pesach, from the kiklar piyyut Chacham Lev VeAmitz Koach.

[1] parchment leaf. 36.5X50.5 cm. Fair condition. Stains. Punctures, open tears and defects, affecting several words.
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