Hebrew. PENTATEUCH AND MEGILOTH). With translation into Judeo-Tatar

Estimate: $6,000–$8,000
Hammer price: $4,000

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author

(BIBLE,

Place

Crimea

Publication

18th century

Description

Cursive Judeo-Tataric Hebrew script with square headings. Owner's signature and stamp on colophon "I, Mordechai ben Beracha Yerushalmi purchased this translation of the Torah from Shlomo Ha-Maskil," with other owners' notations on final leaves, dated 1801 and 1843

summary

Mordechai Yerushalmi was a leading Karaite of the 18th-century. This manuscript predates the first printed Tatar translation of the Bible in Orta-Koi, near Constantinople, 1833-5. (See Lot 112)

ff. 119. Contemporary blind-tooled calf with previous owner's name blind tooled on upper cover. Sm. folio

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