Auction 059 Items from the Victor (Avigdor) Klagsbald Collection: Early Printed Books, Manuscripts, Glosses and Autographs by Leading Rabbinic Figures

Manuscript, Samaritan Machzor for Selichot – Eretz Israel, 1871

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Manuscript, Samaritan machzor with prayers for the ten days of Selichot before Yom Kippur. [Shechem], 1871. Hebrew (Samaritan script) with some Arabic. Black and purple ink on paper.
Manuscript produced by copyist Amin ibn Shalabi ibn Yaqub Shalabi HaDanafi.
In middle of manuscript, colophon dated 1871.

[21] leaves (last leaf blank). Bound with many blank leaves at beginning and end of volume. Approx. 20 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains, including dampstains (many stains to some leaves). Old leather binding, repaired. Wear and defects to binding. Bookplate of scholar and theologian Arthur James Mason (1851-1928), and dedication to him on one of endpapers.
Various Manuscripts
Various Manuscripts