Tephilah LeShaliach Tzibur...Yamim Noraim [personal prayer for the Cantor on the High Holy Days].

AUCTION 49 | Wednesday, October 27th, 2010 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Hebrew Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters and Graphic Art

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Tephilah LeShaliach Tzibur...Yamim Noraim [personal prayer for the Cantor on the High Holy Days].

Hebrew Manuscript written in a fine calligraphic Aschkenazic square script. Black and red inks on paper. With charming flourishes and geometric designs throughout. Decorative “Shevithi,” verses from Psalms in Candelabra-form on verso of title and illustration of Priestly Hands on f.5v. Acrostical verses. Colophon on f.5v pp. 10 (excluding blanks), portion of few pages starting, trace stained. Contemporary gilt-tooled vellum. 8vo

Padua: 1834

Est: $2,000 - $3,000

PRICE REALIZED $1,500

Penned by the scribe Isaac Judah Kohen at the commission of Moses bar Judah Kohen Schuster. Includes prayers for strength: “May [the Cantor’s] voice penetrate the veils of Heaven.” A later inscription on the opening blank states that the manuscript was donated to the Great Aschkenazic Synagogue of Padua by Cantor Schuster upon completion of 65 years as Shaliach Tzibur (prayer leader)