Weinberg, Morris. Hasepher Tehilim - This Book the Psalms of King David Written by Hand. (Facsimile edition).

AUCTION 7 | Tuesday, June 22nd, 1999 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Books, Manuscripts and Works of Art The Property of Various Owners

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Lot 273

(AMERICAN JUDAICA).

Weinberg, Morris. Hasepher Tehilim - This Book the Psalms of King David Written by Hand. (Facsimile edition).

Hebrew title with scribe’s hand at centre, additional title in English with American Flag. Photographic portrait of Weinberg displaying the Manuscript. Four illustrated divisional titles. Numerous delightful illustrations within the body of the calligraphic Hebrew text. Page of approbations and prayers to avoid nightmares, etc. Memorial Tablet on last page Endpapers stained. Original gilt-stamped roan, lacking backstrip, rubbed, with dust-jacket. 4to

Chicago: 1912

Est: $3,000 - $4,000

Enchanting example of American-Jewish Folk Art. A Most Unusual Volume. The manuscript itself is presently in the Library of the JTSA, New York. See Jewish Museum Catalogue, The Jewish Heritage in American Folk Art (1984) no.90; and J. Ungerleider-Mayerson, Jewish Folk Art (1986) p.34