I Samuel 5:9-6:5 (Fragment)

AUCTION 24 | Tuesday, June 29th, 2004 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Ceremonial Art and Holy Land Maps Including Ceremonial Art from the Collection of Daniel M. Friedenberg

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Lot 229

(BIBLE).

I Samuel 5:9-6:5 (Fragment)

Single sheet. Double columns; 26 lines per column. Brown ink on vellum. Hebrew. Masorah between columns; nikud (vowel points) provided. 145 x 290 mm. Framed

(Germany,: 12th -14th centuries)

Est: $1,000 - $1,500

PRICE REALIZED $850

See D.S. Berkowitz, In Remembrance of Creation (Waltham, 1968), Fig. 15C-D (with remarkably similar script). Berkowitz describes at length a Bible in a remarkably similar hand from the Rhine Valley dated 1294: “The care which the scribe exercised in this work makes it clear that he conceived of it as a master work of Hebrew calligraphy. The letters are formed with precision and slanted slightly to the left, creating, as it were, the elegance of the italic style in Hebrew characters” (p. 13).