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Auction 7 · Lot 615
Hebrew Map of Safed with the Burial-Sites of the Righteous. Single manuscript leaf. Aschkenazi cursive Hebrew script, black ink on paper. Composed for one Elijah Tzvi by Isaac Batishan, noting within which hillside caverns it was customary to pray
- Estimate
- $2,000–$3,000
- Hammer price
- Not recorded
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author
(HOLY LAND)
Place
Safed
Publication
1888
summary
An historic map displaying the Jewish Holy Places of Safed, Meron and the surrounding hills of Eretz Israel’s Upper Galilee. Details the town-plan of Safed itself, and it’s division into Jewish and Arab sections, also the prominent hill-top structure of the Austrian Consulate. Locates the resting-places of R. Shimon bar Yochai, Isaac Luria, Moses Alsheich, Hanna and her Sons, and numerous other personages: Biblical, Talmudic and later sages all set against a rolling hilly terrain
Early repair, marginally repaired. Not examined out of frame. 275x390 mm
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