(Mohel Bichel).

Estimate: $1,000–$1,500
Hammer price: $1,600

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

author

(CIRCUMCISION RECORD-BOOK)

Place

Klausenburg

Publication

1894-1914

Description

Hebrew Manuscript on paper. Recording the performance of 1,140 circumcisions during a period of twenty years. Written in a clear, cursive Ashkenazic hand.

summary

Most of these circumcisions were performed in the town of Klausenburg (Kolozsvár), today Cluj, Rumania. Other towns and villages mentioned are Monaster, Somoshpalvo, Sasregen and Deesz. An important historical record for Jewish genealogy.

pp. 114. Contemporary calf backed boards. 8vo.

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