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Auction 54 · Lot 257
BIBLE
- Estimate
- $6,000–$8,000
- Hammer price
- $10,000
Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.
Place
Near East, (Syria?)
Description
A parchment leaf including Psalms 85-86. With vowel-points, accents (ta’amim) and Masorah.
summary
After extensive review of the paleography and codicological features of this manuscript, it can be clearly determined that it is written in a square Oriental script of the 11th century and was composed in the Near East, very likely Syria.
The earliest survivng copies of Biblical texts date to the 10th- and 11th-centuries. A surviving leaf from this period is exceptionally rare, especially from the Near East region.
Two pages of a single vellum leaf.
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