Auction 16 · Lot 255
(LITURGY)
- Estimate
- $15,000–$18,000
- Hammer price
- $16,000
Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.
Place
Correggio
Publication
1831
Description
Sephirath ha’Omer [Order of Counting the Omer]. With related blessings and meditations. 105 pp., black ink on paper, Italian square and Rabbinic script, each page within attractive watercolor borders of scrolling foliage, also featuring cornucopia of roses and small birds, a basket of fruit on f.2v
summary
A most charming manuscript with delicate folk-art decoration.
Corregio is a small town in Northern Italy near Reggio Emilia and Modena, from where very few Jewish artifacts remain extant.
Prof. Shalom Sabar, Department of Art History, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, has examined this Manuscript and his comprehensive description in Hebrew is appended to the lot for further reference
Contemporary half calf, corners bumped, 102x132mm.
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