Torah scroll. [Turkey, Greece, or the Balkan region, ca. second half of the 18th century or early 19th century].
Sephardic script, characteristic of the Balkan region. The Torah scroll is rolled on two "Atzei Chaim" (carved wooden rollers, typical of the region and period).

Height of parchment: 46 cm. Maximum height of the "Atzei Chaim": Approx. 95 cm. Fair condition. Stains, including dark stains. Faded ink and blemishes. Later erasures and corrections in many places. Restored tears. Large open tears to several sheets (in Parashat Balak), affecting text, restored. The parchment is cut in a circular shape in the first and last sheets. Housed in a later velvet mantle.


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Esther scroll. [Transylvania, ca. 19th/20th century].
Ink on parchment. Neat Ashkenazic Stam script. 42 lines per column. With tin case and lid. The bottom of the case and lid are engraved with the name of the owner, R. "Menachem Mendel Deutsch" – from whose estate the present Megillah derives.

R. Menachem Mendel Deutsch of Deyzh (ca. 1860s-1942), disciple of the Yitav Lev and close disciple of the Maaglei Tzedek of Deyzh. He immigrated to Eretz Israel and authored and published Mevi Tzedek.

Parchment scroll. 4 membranes, comprising 12 columns. Height of parchment: 36 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains and creases. Some letters were deleted and faded. The scroll is placed in an original tin case, with some warping.

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Five Books of the Torah, Neviim and Ketuvim. Geneva: Kafa [Cephas] Elon, 1618.
Vocalized Bible. Two columns per page. Divisional title pages for Neviim Rishonim, Neviim Acharonim and Ketuvim (Five Megillot printed after the Torah, without divisional title page).
Ketuvim title page differs from the other title pages, and is not found in all copies.
Two columns per page, like the Bible edition used by R. Aryeh Levin for Goral HaGra, following a special tradition transmitted from the Vilna Gaon.
Handwritten inscriptions of chapter numbers and totals of verses.

369; 124 leaves. Leaves 103-104 of first sequence bound out of place, after leaf 100. 21.5 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains, including dampstains. Minor wear to some leaves. Creases to title page at beginning of volume. Tears, including small marginal open tears to several leaves, slightly affecting text of second leaf. Trimming of Ketuvim title page slightly affecting bottom of illustrated frame. Second leaf mostly detached. Old binding, with leather spine and corners and original colorful endpaper. Wear and damage to binding.


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