Tehilim (Psalms)

Estimate: $800–$1,000
Hammer price: $600

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author

(BIBLE).

Place

Jerusalem?

Publication

End 19th-Beginning 20th Century

Description

Hebrew manuscript. Oriental cursive script. Headers, leaf numbers, chapter numbers and initial words all in red. Broad margins. Colophon on f. 64r. provides the copyist's name as "Aharon Taragano." (See below)

summary

Taragan was a prominent Sephardic rabbinical family in Jerusalem. R. Joseph Jechiel Taragan (d. 1820) served as a Dayan in the Beth Din of R. Jacob Ayash (son of R. Judah Ayash). See Frumkin and Rivlin, Toldoth Chachmei Yerushalayim (1929), Pt. III, p. 215

ff. 64. 20 lines per page. Black and red ink on coarse paper. Later cloth. 8vo. Ex-library

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