(PICART, BERNARD)

AUCTION 32 | Thursday, March 23rd, 2006 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Autographed Letters, Manuscripts, Graphics and Ceremonial Art

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Lot 333

(PICART, BERNARD)

Two etchings: I. Les Juifs presentant le Pentateuque au Pape dans la Collisée. From Picart, Cérémonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde (1722). 4 x 4 inches. * II. The Jews presenting the Pentateuch to the Pope in the Coliseum. From second English edition of Picart. Re-engraved by C. Du Bosc and the design reversed. 4x 4 inches

Est: $300 - $500

PRICE REALIZED $150

One of the many humiliations the Jews of Rome were subjected to, was the obsequious greeting of each new pope by a delegation of the elders near the Arch of Titus, whereby they would humbly present the pontiff with a Sepher Torah, which he, for his part, then contemptuously returned. See EJ, Vol. XIV, col. 250