Hebrew. PENTATEUCH AND MEGILOTH). With translation into Judeo-Tatar

AUCTION 15 | Tuesday, March 12th, 2002 at 1:00

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

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Lot 437

(BIBLE,

Hebrew. PENTATEUCH AND MEGILOTH). With translation into Judeo-Tatar

Cursive Judeo-Tataric Hebrew script with square headings. Owner's signature and stamp on colophon "I, Mordechai ben Beracha Yerushalmi purchased this translation of the Torah from Shlomo Ha-Maskil," with other owners' notations on final leaves, dated 1801 and 1843 ff. 119. Contemporary blind-tooled calf with previous owner's name blind tooled on upper cover. Sm. folio

Crimea: 18th century

Est: $6,000 - $8,000

PRICE REALIZED $4,000

Mordechai Yerushalmi was a leading Karaite of the 18th-century. This manuscript predates the first printed Tatar translation of the Bible in Orta-Koi, near Constantinople, 1833-5. (See Lot 112)