Yad Dovid [novellae to Tractate Yevamoth]

AUCTION 70 | Thursday, September 22nd, 2016 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autographed Letters, Graphic and Ceremonial Art

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Lot 113

SINZHEIM, JOSEPH DAVID BEN ISAAC.

Yad Dovid [novellae to Tractate Yevamoth]

Autograph Manuscript in Hebrew, written in a cursive Aschkenazic hand on paper. Each page ruled in red ink with the text in the middle, the page numbers of the tractate on one side and occasional marginal notes on the other side. ff. 91. Final leaf loose. Modern polished tree-calf. Sm. folio.

France: Late 18th century

Est: $8,000 - $10,000

PRICE REALIZED $7,000

<<AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT.>> The senior and most learned member of the Assembly of Notables, Chief Rabbi of Strasbourg Joseph David Sinzheim (1745-1812) was appointed president (Nasi) by Napoleon himself of the famed Grand Sanhedrin of Paris.