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Auction 13 · Lot 436

Seder Targum shel Pesach [Aramaic translation of the Haphtaroth reading for the Festival of Passover]. Each Aramaic verse followed by the first word of the Hebrew verse

Estimate
$500–$700
Hammer price
Not recorded

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author

(ITALIAN JUDAICA)

Place

Fiurenzula

Publication

1853

Description

Manuscript in Italian square Hebrew script. Black ink on paper. Title within geometric border. Excecuted by the scribe Menachem Menashe Levi

summary

The custom of the Northen Italian towns was to recite the Aramaic targum of the Haphtaroth in conjunction with the Hebrew, reading a verse in Hebrew and Aramaic alternately
ff. (10). Stained in places. Later marbled boards, gently rubbed at extremities. 8vo
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