Auction 92 Part 2 Rare and Important Manuscripts and Items of the Gross Family Collection
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Facsimile of the Darmstadt Haggadah, an illuminated 15th century Haggadah. Printed on high-quality paper. With commentary volume: Die Darmstadter Pessach-Haggadah, edited by Bruno Italiener. Leipzig, 1927. Germany.
Facsimile: [57] leaves + [1] leaf (with imprint). Approx. 35 cm. Commentary vol.: XI, [1], 313, [1] pages + 16 plates. 27.5 cm. Good-fair condition. Creases to facsimile. Tears, including minor marginal open tears to facsimile. Open tear to final leaf of facsimile, not affecting illustration, repaired with paper on verso. Endpapers of facsimile presumably not original (colophon leaf with details of edition and copy no. cut and mounted on endpaper). Impressive leather binding, with metal corners and decorations, and clasp remnants (lacking straps). Blemishes to binding.
Yaari 2064; Otzar HaHaggadot 3094.
Provenance: The Gross Family Collection, Tel Aviv, FAC.13.
An exquisite, accurate facsimile of the Barcelona Haggadah, a 14th century illuminated manuscript. Printed on thick imitation vellum paper and bound in leather. The raised burnished gold in the original was reproduced by laying metal leaf by hand.
Facsimile: [161] leaves. Commentary volume: 175 pages. 25.5 cm. Both volumes are placed in the original, card slipcase. Slipcase: 28 cm. Good condition. Minor stains to commentary volume. Minor blemishes to spines. Minor blemishes to slipcase.
Provenance: The Gross Family Collection, Tel Aviv, FAC.56.
The Kennicott Bible. Elaborate facsimile published by Facsimile Editions. Including commentary volume. London, [1985]. Copy 99/500 (altogether 550 copies were printed, including 50 AP – Ad Personam copies, which are identical to the regular copies).
A facsimile of the Kennicott Bible, illuminated Spanish manuscript from 1476. The manuscript is named after Benjamin Kennicot (1718-1783), an English clergyman and Hebraist, who acquired the manuscript for the Radcliffe Library in England. The manuscript was commissioned by Don Solomon de Braga, about twenty years before the expulsion of Jews from Spain in 1492. It was designed and scribed by Moses ibn Zabara and illuminated by Yosef ibn Haim, in a fashion inspired by Islamic art. The manuscript contains the complete Bible, with the Radak commentary and Sefer HaMichlol.
An exceptionally beautiful facsimile, published after five and a half years of preparation. Printed on paper of excellent quality, specially created to reproduce the appearance of the parchment upon which the original manuscript was scribed. The gilding was done by hand, by seven artists who worked continuously for four months. Bound in an ornamented leather binding.
Facsimile: [444] leaves. 30 cm. Gilt edges. Commentary volume: 97 pages. Good condition. Both volumes are placed in a fine box. Minor blemishes to box.
Provenance: The Gross Family Collection, Tel Aviv, FAC.10.
The Rothschild Miscellany. An elaborate facsimile produced by The Israel Museum and Facsimile Editions, Jerusalem-London, 1989. Copy no. 28, of a limited edition of 500 copies (altogether 550 copies were printed, including 50 AP – Ad Personam copies, which are identical to the regular copies).
The Rothschild Miscellany, commissioned by Moshe ben Yekutiel HaKohen in 1479, is considered the most lavish of all Hebrew manuscripts. The Miscellany comprises more than 37 religious and secular works, including: Psalms, Proverbs, Iyov, a yearly prayer book with the Passover Haggadah, and philosophical, moralistic and scientific treatises. With vignettes illustrating the text, and ornate gold-leaf initial-word panels.
Elaborate leather bound facsimile, with accompanying commentary volume (in English), each placed in a case.
Facsimile: [473] leaves. Commentary volume: 256 pages. Volumes: 21 cm. Cases: 24 cm. Good condition. Minor blemishes to bindings and cases.
Enclosed:
1. Facsimile page from the Rothscild Mahzor – opening of the Song of Songs. Copy no. 143 of 300.
2. Facsimile of Rothscild Manuscript No. 24, written in Italy ca. 1485, and presented to the Bezalel National Museum, Jerusalem. Introduction by Karl Katz. Jerusalem-Hadera, 1959. Hebrew and English.
Provenance: The Gross Family Collection, Tel Aviv, FAC.29.
The North French Hebrew Miscellany. Elaborate facsimile produced by Facsimile Editions, including a commentary volume in English. London, 2003. Copy no. 81/330 (altogether 360 copies were printed, including 30 AP – Ad Personam copies, which are identical to the regular copies).
Facsimile of the North French Hebrew Miscellany (created 1278-1298), considered to be the most elaborate and splendid Hebrew manuscript created in France. The miscellany comprises 84 groups of text, including hundreds of different texts, such as: the Five Books of the Torah and Haftarot; Five Megillot; prayers for weekdays, Shabbat and festivals; Passover Haggadah; Birkat HaMazon; texts of ketubot, divorce documents and other documents; laws of Tefillin; Pirkei Avot; Seder HaMaarachah; hundreds of piyyutim for the festivals; the Book of Tobit (earliest extant Hebrew version); earliest known copy of Sefer Mitzvot Katan by R. Yitzchak of Corbeil (composed in 1277); and many other texts (see commentary volume for full list of contents). The various texts are decorated with miniatures and occasionally large illustration. The text was scribed by Binyamin the Scribe, who signed his name in several places, yet left no other information about himself.
Elaborate facsimile, in a gilt-decorated leather binding; with accompanying commentary volume (in English), bound in a parchment binding, both placed in matching slipcases. Facsimile: [746] leaves. Gilt edges. Commentary volume: 336 pages. Volumes: approx. 16 cm. Slipcases: 18 cm. Good condition. Minor blemishes to facsimile binding.
Provenance: The Gross Family Collection, Tel Aviv, FAC.88.