Samuel (I) Chap. 5:9 - Chap. 6:5. Hebrew manuscript fragment.
AUCTION 69 |
Thursday, June 23rd,
2016 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Holy Land Maps and Ceremonial Objects
Lot 218
(BIBLE).
Samuel (I) Chap. 5:9 - Chap. 6:5. Hebrew manuscript fragment.
(Germany: 13th-century)
Est: $1,000 - $1,500
PRICE REALIZED $800
See D.S. Berkowitz, In Remembrance of Creation (1968), fig. 15C/D - with remarkably similar script to the present lot.
Berkowitz describes at length a Bible in a remarkably similar hand from the Rhine Valley dated 1294: “The care which the scribe exercised in this work makes it clear that he conceived of it as a master work of Hebrew calligraphy. The letters are formed with precision and slanted slightly to the left, creating, as it were, the elegance of the italic style in Hebrew characters” (p. 13).
Provenance: From the Collection of the late Daniel M. Friedenberg.
Sold at Kestenbaum & Company, 29th June, 20014, Lot 229.