Auction 93 Part 1 - Manuscripts, Prints and Engravings, Objects and Facsimiles, from the Gross Family Collection, and Private Collections
Collection of Books – Medieval Hebrew Manuscripts
Collection of books dealing with early Hebrew manuscripts, including many facsimile photographs:
• A Series of XV. Facsimiles of Manuscripts of the Hebrew Bible, with descriptions by Christian D. Ginsburg. London: James Hyatt, 1897. Includes one plate.
• Die Hebräischen Handschriften der Nationalbibliothek in Wien, by Arthur Zacharias Schwarz. Vienna: Alfred Hölder, 1914.
• Die Hebräischen Handschriften der Nationalbibliothek in Wien, by Arthur Zacharias Schwarz. Leipzig, 1925. Includes plates, some colored.
• The Hebrew Scripts, by Solomon A. Birnbaum, two parts in two volumes. Part I – text, Leiden, 1971. Part II – plates, London, 1954–1957.
• The Hebrew Paleography Project, Manuscrits médiévaux en caractères hébraïques portant des indications de date jusqu'à 1540. (Medieval Manuscripts in Hebrew Characters), edited by Colette Sirat, Malachi Beit–Arie and Mordechai Glatzer. Jerusalem, 1972–1986. Hebrew and French. Complete set in seven parts.
Descriptions of Hebrew manuscripts from the early 12th century until the mid–16th century found in libraries in Israel and France. Plates with facsimile photographs of parts of the manuscripts in a separate volume and three portfolios.
5 items in 12 volumes. Size and condition vary.
Provenance: The Gross Family Collection, Tel Aviv.