Chamishah Chumshei Torah [Pentateuch].

AUCTION 69 | Thursday, June 23rd, 2016 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Holy Land Maps and Ceremonial Objects

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Lot 134
(KARAITICA).

Chamishah Chumshei Torah [Pentateuch].

Parts I-III only (of 5). Text in two columns: Hebrew and translation into Judeo-Tatar. With introductory poems. Edited by Abraham Firkovitch, et al. Issued without a title-page. Bereishith, Shemoth, Vayikra: ff. 218. Lacking ff. 2-4 and f. 65. Ex-library, previous owners’ marks, stained in places, slight tape repair. Modern boards. 4to. Vinograd, Const. 690; Yaari, Const. 515; JNUL copy incomplete.

Orta-Koi (near Constantinople): Arub Oglu Bogus 1832-35

Est: $1,000 - $1,500
PRICE REALIZED $1,000
<<The first Pentateuch produced for the Karaite community. >> “In Czarist Russia during the nineteenth century, the Karaites sought to emphasize their differences with the followers of traditional, rabbinic Judaism, in order to avoid being victim to anti-Jewish laws and so improve their socio-economic status. Clearly aimed at the Karaite community, this Bible, with translation into Judeo-Tartar (the local Karaite Crimean dialect), was thus a cultural statement as well as a political tool for achieving a separate - but more than equal - status under imperial Russian law” (Words Like Sapphires: 100 Years of Hebraica at the Library of Congress, 1912–2012).