Machsor Lipsiae

AUCTION 11 | Tuesday, November 28th, 2000 at 1:00

Important Hebrew Printed Books and Manuscripts From the Library of the London Beth Din

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Lot 174

(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. With Prospectus Plate volume, pictoral cream with multi-colored stamp design on front, folio. Text volume with essays by Elias Katz and Bezalel Narkiss, annotated. Housed in original publisher’s box. Some dampstaining. 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