Sefer Hazkarath Neshamoth [memorial ledger]

AUCTION 66 | Thursday, November 19th, 2015 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Ceremonial Objects and Graphic Art

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Lot 29

(HUNGARY)

Sefer Hazkarath Neshamoth [memorial ledger]

Manuscript in Hebrew, written <<on vellum>> in a square Aschkenazic hand with additional single words in cursive script. Handsomely decorated title-page. ff. 20 (excluding blanks). Worn and stained in places, few names effaced. Contemporary velvet-covered boards. 4to.

Bonyhad: 1854

Est: $2,000 - $3,000

PRICE REALIZED $2,000

A finely composed communal record-book, memorializing deceased members of the town of Bonyhad, located in Tolna County, south-western Hungary. Names recorded include those “who poured their silver and gold towards the fund of the Chevra Kadisha to have their names recited on the Fearful Fast (Yom Kippur) and the Three Festivals…” Includes influential members of the community, important rabbis and their wives, among them such rabbinic luminaries as R. Binyamin Zev Boskowitz (d. 1818) and R. Tzvi Hirsch Heller (d. 1834).