PSALMS). Sepher Tehilim. With Nikud (vowel-points)

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 299

(BIBLE, Hebrew

PSALMS). Sepher Tehilim. With Nikud (vowel-points)

ff. (116). Lower portion of opening and closing pages removed (not affecting text), lightly stained. 17th-century calf, spine in compartments, gilt. 12mo Vinograd, Venice 299; Mehlman 70; not in Adams

Venice: M. A. Giustiniani 1546

Est: $8,000 - $10,000

PRICE REALIZED $8,000

Remarkably rare 16th-century Venetian Hebrew Psalter. Not in the British Library. No copy has appeared at auction for more than fifty years