Auction 27 - Books, Manuscripts and Rabbinical Letters
Manuscript – Homiletics, Unknown Work – Spain, 15th Century
Opening: $2,000
Sold for: $4,000
Including buyer's premium
22 leaf remnants [more than 50 pages] removed from the "bindings geniza".
Sections of an unknown work which apparently included homiletics written by a Spanish Torah scholar. The style is characteristic of Spanish scholars in the generation before the Spanish Expulsion with philosophic ideas, allegories and ethical teachings. Some of the leaves have extensive explanations on the Ten Commandments. One of the pages has a "signature" [of the homiletic or the composition]: "G-d shall place us amongst those who keep his mitzvoth and those who fear him…".
Over 50 pages, with various levels of damage to text. 20 cm. Professional leaf restoration. Ring motif on watermarks on leaves corresponds to the watermarks on paper produced in Europe in the second half of the 15th century.
Sections of an unknown work which apparently included homiletics written by a Spanish Torah scholar. The style is characteristic of Spanish scholars in the generation before the Spanish Expulsion with philosophic ideas, allegories and ethical teachings. Some of the leaves have extensive explanations on the Ten Commandments. One of the pages has a "signature" [of the homiletic or the composition]: "G-d shall place us amongst those who keep his mitzvoth and those who fear him…".
Over 50 pages, with various levels of damage to text. 20 cm. Professional leaf restoration. Ring motif on watermarks on leaves corresponds to the watermarks on paper produced in Europe in the second half of the 15th century.
Manuscripts
Manuscripts