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Auction 57 · Lot 226

The Kennicott Bible.

Estimate
$3,000–$4,000
Hammer price
$2,500

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

author

(ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT)

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Facsimile Editions

Place

(London)

Publication

1985

Description

One of 500 numbered copies. Facsimile edition. Two volumes. Plates and Text (prepared by Bezalel Narkiss and Aliza Cohen-Mushlin). Mint copy.

summary

The Kennicott Bible, produced in North-West Spain in 1476, is one of the great Hebrew treasures of the Bodleian Library, Oxfor
Facsimile of original lavishly blind-tooled calf. Housed in solander box. Thick folio
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