Ketzat Hannah Almarhumah [Story of Hannah and Her Seven Sons]. * Ketzat Yosef ha-Tzadik [Story of Joseph]
AUCTION 36 |
Thursday, March 22nd,
2007 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Printed Books & Manuscripts
Lot 240
(INDIA)
Ketzat Hannah Almarhumah [Story of Hannah and Her Seven Sons]. * Ketzat Yosef ha-Tzadik [Story of Joseph]
Calcutta: 1863
Est: $1,500 - $2,500
PRICE REALIZED $3,500
The Story of Joseph enjoyed great popularity throughout the Arabic-speaking Jewish world. David Sassoon points out that the Maghrebi or North African versions differ considerably from the Baghdadi and Indian versions. The Sassoon collection held two Indian manuscripts, one from Poona, 1863. Ketzat Yosef ha-Tzadik was published in Bombay in 1887. Sassoon also possessed three eighteenth-century Indian manuscripts of Ketzat Hannah Al Marhumah [The Story of Hannah and Her Seven Sons]. The latter was first published in Calcutta in 1888
See Ohel Dawid: Descriptive Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the Sassoon Library, Vol. I (1932), pp.479-481