Machsor Lipsiae.

Estimate: $500–$700
Hammer price: $900

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

author

(JEWISH ART)

Place

Leipzig

Publication

1964

Description

Sixty-Eight Facsimile Plates of the Medieval, Illuminated Hebrew Manuscript in the Possession of the Leipzig Unviersity Library. Text in Hebrew, German and English.

summary

First illustrated Machzor reproduced in facsimile. The Leipzig Machzor is the most sumptuous of South German illuminated Machzorim, with the most extensive array of illustrations. It is regarded as one of the most significant medieval monuments of Hebraic art.

Plates loose as issued in pictoral cream folding box with multi-colored stamp design on front. Text volume (essays by Elias Katz and Bezalel Narkiss) accompanying in sleeve, housed in original publisher’s box. Folio

Enquire about this lot