Hebrew. PENTATEUCH, HAPHTAROTH & FIVE SCROLLS). Chamishah Chumshei Torah. With vocalization and cantillation points. With commentary Totze’oth Chaim by Chaim Boskowitz

Estimate: $500–$700
Hammer price: Not recorded

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author

(BIBLE,.

printer

Anton Schmid

Place

Vienna

Publication

1794

Description

A Large-Paper Copy. Five volumes. Each with title-page printed in red and black. On title of Vol I, Hebrew inscription of former owner "Aryeh Leib ben Shemayah of Ungvar." Several early 19th-century inscriptions (Hebrew, German and Hungarian) of members of the Schön or Yaffe Family of Ujhely, Hungary. Wide margins

references

Vinograd, Vienna 55

Vol. I: ff.(4), 98, (2). Half of f. 4 torn away and provided in old manuscript. First 6 leaves detached. f.50 and final leaf torn. Gutter split. Vol. II: ff.125. First two leaves laid to size. Vol. III: ff.61, (1), 64-74. Vol. IV: ff.16 (i.e.77). Vol. V: ff.80; 19-42. Browned, stained in places. Uniform contemporary mottled calf, rubbed and worn. Folio

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