EILU MEAH BRACHOTH, AND OTHER PRELIMININARY BLESSINGS AND PRAYERS. ROMAN 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 253

(LITURGY).

EILU MEAH BRACHOTH, AND OTHER PRELIMININARY BLESSINGS AND PRAYERS. ROMAN RITE.

Manuscript on vellum. Four leaves (two bifolia), 18-19 lines, written in an Italian square and cursive script with nikud. Plus marginalia citing the Abudraham. Enclosed within two frames.

North-East Italy, Ferrara (?) : circa 1460-70

Est: $4,000 - $6,000

PRICE REALIZED $6,750

Richly illuminated opening page with the word “Eilu” in burnished gold on a blue panel with white tracery. The word “Baruch” in gold on a dark red panel, full illuminated border with classical pediment on top and sprays of flowers within frenzied gold penwork in the Ferrarese style. Coat-of-arms at foot (a stag rampant argent) in a wreath in a panel of Ferrarese penwork. (Arms not recorded by Roth and Pisa on Italian Jewish Heraldry, but possibly Corbineli of Florence). This elegant illumination is in the style of Ferrarese manuscripts painted in the court of Borso d’Este, 1450-71.