Machsor Lipsiae.

AUCTION 10 | Tuesday, June 27th, 2000 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts and Works of Art

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Lot 135

(JEWISH ART)

Machsor Lipsiae.

Sixty-Eight Facsimile Plates of the Medieval, Illuminated Hebrew Manuscript in the Possession of the Leipzig Unviersity Library. Text in Hebrew, German and English. Plates loose as issued in pictoral cream folding box with multi-colored stamp design on front. Text volume (essays by Elias Katz and Bezalel Narkiss) accompanying in sleeve, housed in original publisher’s box. Folio

Leipzig : 1964

Est: $500 - $700

PRICE REALIZED $900

First illustrated Machzor reproduced in facsimile. The Leipzig Machzor is the most sumptuous of South German illuminated Machzorim, with the most extensive array of illustrations. It is regarded as one of the most significant medieval monuments of Hebraic art.