Pinkas Chevrath Bikur Cholim.

AUCTION 68 | Thursday, April 07th, 2016 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, Ceremonial Objects and Graphic Art

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Lot 158

(UKRAINE)

Pinkas Chevrath Bikur Cholim.

Manuscript in Hebrew, written in cursive Ashkenazic hands, on paper. ff. 36 (incomplete). Each leaf remargined, worn and torn in places, various paper repairs. Recased retaining upper cover of original(?) binding. Sm. 4to.

Ustyluh (Ustila): 1761-c.1863

Est: $1,500 - $2,000

PRICE REALIZED $1,500

Communal ledger of a social and charitable society. The ledger opens with a list of rules and regulations for the members of the society, followed by names of the annually elected officers. Records expenditures and specifies that funds from the society are to be used to assist in organizing community weddings and circumcisions. Regulates honors due at life-cycle events, including the selection of a Sandek by means of a lottery. Ustyluh is a small hamlet situated near the Poland-Ukraine border alongside the Bug River. See Pinkas HaKehilot - Poland, Vol. 5 (1990) pp. 32-4).