Auction 77 - Judaica – Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters, Ceremonial
Assorted Collection of Manuscripts, and Handwritten and Printed Leaves, Including Fragments of Early Printed Leaves
Opening: $1,000
Unsold
Assorted collection of manuscripts, manuscript and printed leaf fragments, and more.
The collection includes:
• Various manuscripts in Oriental script [mostly Baghdad or India]
• Binding of a book made from manuscript leaves, including leaves from a manuscript of Minhagei Fez and other manuscripts.
• Fragments of early printed leaves from a "bindings genizah", including leaf fragment from a Bomberg edition of the Talmud (Venice 1521), leaf fragment from Rav Alfas, Constantinople 1509 and other leaves (including several leaves from books printed by Soncino in Constantinople, 16th century)
• [7] leaves from the Book of Kohelet with Rashi.
• Various printed leaves, including broadsides related to the Babylonian community in Jerusalem, and more.
Approx. 50 items. Size and condition vary.
Provenance: Sassoon Family Collection.
The collection includes:
• Various manuscripts in Oriental script [mostly Baghdad or India]
• Binding of a book made from manuscript leaves, including leaves from a manuscript of Minhagei Fez and other manuscripts.
• Fragments of early printed leaves from a "bindings genizah", including leaf fragment from a Bomberg edition of the Talmud (Venice 1521), leaf fragment from Rav Alfas, Constantinople 1509 and other leaves (including several leaves from books printed by Soncino in Constantinople, 16th century)
• [7] leaves from the Book of Kohelet with Rashi.
• Various printed leaves, including broadsides related to the Babylonian community in Jerusalem, and more.
Approx. 50 items. Size and condition vary.
Provenance: Sassoon Family Collection.
Near Eastern and Far Eastern Jewry –
Manuscripts and Books
Near Eastern and Far Eastern Jewry –
Manuscripts and Books