ILLUMINATED MACHZOR For YOM KIPPUR. Aschkenazi rite.

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 251

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ILLUMINATED MACHZOR For YOM KIPPUR. Aschkenazi rite.

Two leaves. Wide margins. 22 lines per page. Text in brown ink and other colors on vellum. Initial words in gold ink, surrounded by rich historiation in red; alternately, intials in red, surrounded by green historiation. The elaborate ornamentals include tendrils and several faces of people as well as a dog. The scribe has “hung” missing words between lines or in margins. 345 x 445 cm. In a few instances the chemicals in the gold ink have corroded the parchment. Framed

Germany : ca. 1300

Est: $4,000 - $6,000

PRICE REALIZED $7,500

Another page from this Machzor appears in the Catalogue of the Moldovan Family Collection. See A Mirror of Jewish Life: A Selection from the Moldovan Family Collection (Tel Aviv, 1999), no.6.