Auction 74 - Judaica - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters, Ceremonial Art
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Auction 74 - Judaica - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters, Ceremonial Art
September 15, 2020
Opening: $1,000
Sold for: $2,375
Including buyer's premium
Parchment Haftarot scroll. [United States, first half of 20th century].
Neat Ashkenazic Stam script (titles in Vellish script), on two rollers. Comprising the haftarot for the entire year, including the haftarot for the second festival day in the Diaspora. Instructions in Rashi script. Several columns headed with crown-like decorative elements.
Wooden rollers, turned, carved and engraved. Set with celluloid.
Scroll height: approx. 50 cm. Rollers height: 78 cm. Overall good condition. Many stains. One upper handle missing. Velvet embroidered mantle, reading "Sefer Haftarot".
Neat Ashkenazic Stam script (titles in Vellish script), on two rollers. Comprising the haftarot for the entire year, including the haftarot for the second festival day in the Diaspora. Instructions in Rashi script. Several columns headed with crown-like decorative elements.
Wooden rollers, turned, carved and engraved. Set with celluloid.
Scroll height: approx. 50 cm. Rollers height: 78 cm. Overall good condition. Many stains. One upper handle missing. Velvet embroidered mantle, reading "Sefer Haftarot".
Category
Esther and Haftarot Scrolls
Catalogue
Auction 74 - Judaica - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters, Ceremonial Art
September 15, 2020
Opening: $300
Sold for: $1,500
Including buyer's premium
Esther scroll. [Germany, ca. 17th century].
Script typical of 17th century Germany. 25 lines per column. Further characteristics consistent with the period, including several medieval Ashkenazi traditions which were not customary in later centuries (see enclosed expert's report). In two places, letters highlighted with serifs spell out the four-lettered Names of G-d.
Turned wood case, with engraved text: "Yonah son of Aryeh Nesher 1652". The preliminary margin inscribed "Yonah" in Ashkenazi hand.
Scroll height: 18 cm. Good-fair condition. Many stains. Creases and wear. Several holes. Case height: approx. 24.5 cm. Case in good condition, with minor damage. Loss to shaft, with handle completely missing.
Expert's report enclosed.
Script typical of 17th century Germany. 25 lines per column. Further characteristics consistent with the period, including several medieval Ashkenazi traditions which were not customary in later centuries (see enclosed expert's report). In two places, letters highlighted with serifs spell out the four-lettered Names of G-d.
Turned wood case, with engraved text: "Yonah son of Aryeh Nesher 1652". The preliminary margin inscribed "Yonah" in Ashkenazi hand.
Scroll height: 18 cm. Good-fair condition. Many stains. Creases and wear. Several holes. Case height: approx. 24.5 cm. Case in good condition, with minor damage. Loss to shaft, with handle completely missing.
Expert's report enclosed.
Category
Esther and Haftarot Scrolls
Catalogue
Auction 74 - Judaica - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters, Ceremonial Art
September 15, 2020
Opening: $500
Sold for: $625
Including buyer's premium
Esther scroll. [Italy, ca. first half of 17th century].
Sephardic script, typical of Italy (see paleographic analysis in the enclosed expert's report). 22 lines per column. Italian spelling tradition. Membranes sewn as customary in 17th century Italy. In six places, enlarged letters spell out the four-lettered Names of G-d. Wooden roller.
Separate parchment benediction leaf, written in the same hand, with the blessings recited when reading the Esther scroll and with the liturgical poem "Kor'ei Megillah". The text follows the Italian rite, and includes the closing line of prayer that G-d will take revenge on contemporary persecutors of the Jewish people just as He did in earlier times, frequently censored in prayer books. Signed: "So says the writer… residing in a foreign land, Mordechai son of Shemariah… scribe from Metz, France… residing in Fossano, Piedmont".
Scroll height: 33.5 cm. Roller height: 45 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains. Tears and damage. Fading and damage to some words.
Leaf height: 18.5 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains, creases and wear. Several holes. Open tear to upper margin, not affecting text.
Expert's report enclosed.
Sephardic script, typical of Italy (see paleographic analysis in the enclosed expert's report). 22 lines per column. Italian spelling tradition. Membranes sewn as customary in 17th century Italy. In six places, enlarged letters spell out the four-lettered Names of G-d. Wooden roller.
Separate parchment benediction leaf, written in the same hand, with the blessings recited when reading the Esther scroll and with the liturgical poem "Kor'ei Megillah". The text follows the Italian rite, and includes the closing line of prayer that G-d will take revenge on contemporary persecutors of the Jewish people just as He did in earlier times, frequently censored in prayer books. Signed: "So says the writer… residing in a foreign land, Mordechai son of Shemariah… scribe from Metz, France… residing in Fossano, Piedmont".
Scroll height: 33.5 cm. Roller height: 45 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains. Tears and damage. Fading and damage to some words.
Leaf height: 18.5 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains, creases and wear. Several holes. Open tear to upper margin, not affecting text.
Expert's report enclosed.
Category
Esther and Haftarot Scrolls
Catalogue
Auction 74 - Judaica - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters, Ceremonial Art
September 15, 2020
Opening: $300
Sold for: $550
Including buyer's premium
Esther scroll. [Poland, ca. 18th century].
Script typical of 18th century Western Poland. 20 lines per column. Many decorative serifs. The letter chet decorated with scrolling feet (typical of 18th and 19th century Germany). Wooden roller.
The heads of letters shin, ayin, tet, nun, zayin, gimmel and tzadi written in accordance with the opinion of the Arizal, including the reversed tzadi.
Scroll height: 16.5 cm. Roller height: 44 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains. Wear and creases. Several holes. Many letters retraced.
Script typical of 18th century Western Poland. 20 lines per column. Many decorative serifs. The letter chet decorated with scrolling feet (typical of 18th and 19th century Germany). Wooden roller.
The heads of letters shin, ayin, tet, nun, zayin, gimmel and tzadi written in accordance with the opinion of the Arizal, including the reversed tzadi.
Scroll height: 16.5 cm. Roller height: 44 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains. Wear and creases. Several holes. Many letters retraced.
Category
Esther and Haftarot Scrolls
Catalogue
Auction 74 - Judaica - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters, Ceremonial Art
September 15, 2020
Opening: $300
Sold for: $375
Including buyer's premium
Esther scroll. [Poland (probably Silesia), 19th century].
Large scroll. 37 lines per column. Neat Ashkenazic script, with many fine decorative serifs.
Scroll height: 37 cm. Good condition. Stains, creases and wear. Cardboard case, damaged.
Large scroll. 37 lines per column. Neat Ashkenazic script, with many fine decorative serifs.
Scroll height: 37 cm. Good condition. Stains, creases and wear. Cardboard case, damaged.
Category
Esther and Haftarot Scrolls
Catalogue
Auction 74 - Judaica - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters, Ceremonial Art
September 15, 2020
Opening: $500
Unsold
Esther scroll. [Morocco, 17th/18th century].
Dark gevil. 29 lines per column. Wooden roller, turned, with metal openwork.
The text is followed by the blessings, penned in square and Sephardi semi-cursive scripts. Kabbalistic kavanot added over the words of the final blessing.
Scroll height: 32 cm. Fair condition. Several places in poor condition. Stains, some dark. Wear and creases. Erasures, faded ink and damage. Open tears to one membrane, affecting text. Roller height: 57 cm. Roller in good-fair condition. Long cracks. Losses to wood and metal openwork.
Dark gevil. 29 lines per column. Wooden roller, turned, with metal openwork.
The text is followed by the blessings, penned in square and Sephardi semi-cursive scripts. Kabbalistic kavanot added over the words of the final blessing.
Scroll height: 32 cm. Fair condition. Several places in poor condition. Stains, some dark. Wear and creases. Erasures, faded ink and damage. Open tears to one membrane, affecting text. Roller height: 57 cm. Roller in good-fair condition. Long cracks. Losses to wood and metal openwork.
Category
Esther and Haftarot Scrolls
Catalogue
Auction 74 - Judaica - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters, Ceremonial Art
September 15, 2020
Opening: $700
Sold for: $875
Including buyer's premium
Illustrated Esther scroll. [Eretz Israel, ca. mid-20th century].
Ink on thin parchment. Sephardic Stam script (unskilled). 23 columns. With dozens of naive illustrations, in watercolor (and other media), depicting various scenes from the Megillah narrative and the history of the Jewish people. The illustrations were added after the Megillah was penned, above and below the columns, in the intercolumnar spaces and in the column describing the hanging of the ten sons of Haman.
Scroll height: approx. 24.5 cm. Good-fair condition. Tears and wear. Stains.
Ink on thin parchment. Sephardic Stam script (unskilled). 23 columns. With dozens of naive illustrations, in watercolor (and other media), depicting various scenes from the Megillah narrative and the history of the Jewish people. The illustrations were added after the Megillah was penned, above and below the columns, in the intercolumnar spaces and in the column describing the hanging of the ten sons of Haman.
Scroll height: approx. 24.5 cm. Good-fair condition. Tears and wear. Stains.
Category
Esther and Haftarot Scrolls
Catalogue
Auction 74 - Judaica - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters, Ceremonial Art
September 15, 2020
Opening: $700
Sold for: $938
Including buyer's premium
A miniature Esther scroll housed in a matching filigree case. [Israel, 1950s?].
Silver; filigree; gilding; set turquoises.
"HaMelech" scroll, 14 lines per column. Unskilled script. [20th century].
Cylindrical body, consisting of two bands with repetitive wave pattern. Topped with a crown surmounted by a sphere set with a turquoise. Cylindrical shaft set with an additional turquoise.
Scroll height: approx. 5 cm. Good condition. Torn at inner edge and repaired with tape. Stains. Case height (including shaft): approx. 18.5 cm. Case in good-fair condition. Bends. Wear and loss to gilding. Domed edge of shaft detached (enclosed). New pull piece.
Silver; filigree; gilding; set turquoises.
"HaMelech" scroll, 14 lines per column. Unskilled script. [20th century].
Cylindrical body, consisting of two bands with repetitive wave pattern. Topped with a crown surmounted by a sphere set with a turquoise. Cylindrical shaft set with an additional turquoise.
Scroll height: approx. 5 cm. Good condition. Torn at inner edge and repaired with tape. Stains. Case height (including shaft): approx. 18.5 cm. Case in good-fair condition. Bends. Wear and loss to gilding. Domed edge of shaft detached (enclosed). New pull piece.
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Esther and Haftarot Scrolls
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