Song of Songs.

Estimate: $1,000–$1,500
Hammer price: $800

Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.

author

(BIBLE).

Place

Erbil

Publication

1797

Description

ff.85, vocalized Hebrew verses followed by commentary in Aramaic and Judeo-Arabic, divided into four parts (following the Passover custom), title page within 3-part textual and colored geometric frame, divisional titles with similar colored designs surrounding initial words, black ink on paper, Hebrew square script on paper.

summary

Erbil, a Kurdistani town (presently situated in North-Eastern Iraq), had a continuous Jewish presence from the end of the Second Temple period until the great exodus of Iraqi Jewry to Israel in 1951. See A. Yaari, Sheluchei Eretz Yisrael p.132; EJ, VIII 1462-63.

Variously stained and torn, few taped repairs with occasional loss, lacking f.2, old leather over contemporary manuscript leaves, worn, 4to

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