Prayer upon the completion of writing a Sepher Torah

AUCTION 44 | Thursday, June 25th, 2009 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Hebrew Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, Graphic & Ceremonial Art

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Lot 306
(LITURGY).

Prayer upon the completion of writing a Sepher Torah

ff. (3), 20 lines per page. Sepia on coarse paper. Modern boards. Sm. 4to

n.p. : 19th-century

Est: $200 - $300
Thanks for having successfully completed the writing of a Torah Scroll. Most touchingly, the scribe writes: "I know that if Your great hand would not have come to my assistance, I would have not have been able to rise night after night, to shake slumber from my eyes, in order to write."