Group of eight volumes, each with early Hebrew manuscript leaf utilized as binding.

AUCTION 76 | Thursday, June 14th, 2018 at 3:00 PM

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, Ceremonial & Graphic Art

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Lot 321

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Group of eight volumes, each with early Hebrew manuscript leaf utilized as binding.

<<Containing:>> Janus Gruter (Ed). Delitiae CC Italorum Poetarum / and Delitiae C. Poetarum Gallorum / and Delitiae C. Poetarum Belgicorum. In eight volumes. Frankfurt a/Main, 1608-19. Each volume bound utilizing Hebrew manuscript vellum leaf, written in a semi-cursive German hand. Manuscripts in at least three different hands. <<A detailed scholarly report discussing both, the source of each text and the respective codicology of each of these eight early fragment leaves, is available upon request.>> A summary description is below.

Est: $7,000 - $9,000

PRICE REALIZED $5,000

These Hebrew manuscript vellum leaves have been identified as follows: * Vol. I: Talmud Bavli. Tractate Chulin, Tosafoth. f. 124a. (German, 14th-15th century). * Vol. II: Commentary to Ethics of the Father from the Machzor Vitry. <<With:>> An unidentified Hebrew text. (German, 14th-15th century). * Vol. III: Talmud Bavli. Tractate Chulin, Tosafoth. f. 119a. (German, 14th-15th century). * Vol. IV: Unidentified Hebrew text. Possibly a piyut, quotes Joshua 28:9. (German, 14th-15th century). * Vol. V: Piyut for Hoshana Rabba (see Davidson 6171, et al). (German, 14th-15th century). * Vol. VI: Isaac of Corbeil. Amudei Golah-Sepher Mitzvoth HaKatan. ff. 6-8 (German, 14th-15th century). * Vol. VII: Talmud Bavli. Tractate Chulin, Tosafoth. f. 123a. (German, 14th-15th century). * Vol. VIII: Talmud Bavli. Tractate Chulin, Tosafoth. f. 120a. (German, 14th-15th century). <<Of course, should the manuscript leaves be expertly removed from the volumes, far more text will likely be revealed.>>