I Chronicles Chap. 13:3 - 15:9. Two pages on single vellum leaf, black ink, 21 lines per column. Oriental Hebrew script. Vowel points above letters. Masoretic notes in margins.
AUCTION 58 |
Thursday, May 02nd,
2013 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts and Autograph Letters
Lot 347
(BIBLE)
I Chronicles Chap. 13:3 - 15:9. Two pages on single vellum leaf, black ink, 21 lines per column. Oriental Hebrew script. Vowel points above letters. Masoretic notes in margins.
Orient: 10th-11th centuries
Est: $800 - $1,200
PRICE REALIZED $2,400
The vowel points are situated above the letters in conformity to the Babylonian system (also adopted in Yemen), as opposed to the Tiberian system prevalent today whereby, for the most part, the vowel points are placed below the letters. See EJ, Vol. II, col. 718, fig. 16 (excerpt from Book of Ezekiel in Babylonian script, 916 c.e., Leningrad Public Library, Firkovitch ms. B.3.)