Tehilim (Psalms)

AUCTION 43 | Thursday, April 02nd, 2009 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Hebrew Printed Books, Manuscripts, Graphic & Ceremonial Art

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Tehilim (Psalms)

Hebrew manuscript. Oriental cursive script. Headers, leaf numbers, chapter numbers and initial words all in red. Broad margins. Colophon on f. 64r. provides the copyist's name as "Aharon Taragano." (See below) ff. 64. 20 lines per page. Black and red ink on coarse paper. Later cloth. 8vo. Ex-library

Jerusalem?: End 19th-Beginning 20th Century

Est: $800 - $1,000

PRICE REALIZED $600

Taragan was a prominent Sephardic rabbinical family in Jerusalem. R. Joseph Jechiel Taragan (d. 1820) served as a Dayan in the Beth Din of R. Jacob Ayash (son of R. Judah Ayash). See Frumkin and Rivlin, Toldoth Chachmei Yerushalayim (1929), Pt. III, p. 215