HEBREW. PENTATEUCH, FIVE MEGILLOTH AND HAPHTAROTH). Chamishah Chumshei Torah
AUCTION 32 |
Thursday, March 23rd,
2006 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Autographed Letters, Manuscripts, Graphics and Ceremonial Art
Lot 64
(BIBLE
HEBREW. PENTATEUCH, FIVE MEGILLOTH AND HAPHTAROTH). Chamishah Chumshei Torah
Mantua: Eliezer Solomon d’Italia 1785
Est: $4,000 - $5,000
Court-Room Hebrew Bible.
Signed by the Chief Rabbi of Mantua, Israel Gedaliah Cases (d. 1793), and a second, as yet unidentified rabbi, noting that this volume is to be used by the Judicial-courts of Mantua to administer the Oath to Jewish witnesses, and specifying which page to turn to when administering the Oath. See S. Simonsohn, History of the Jews in the Duchy of Mantua (1977), pp. 699-700.
For another, similar Court-Room Bible from Mantua sold at auction, see Kestenbaum & Company, Sale XXI, 4th December, 2003, Lot 53