Sepher Tirgum Torah BeLashon Tatar [Bible - Former Prophets]. With translation from Hebrew into Judeo-Tartar.

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

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

author

(KARAITICA).

printer

Mordechai Tiriskin

Place

Goslow (Eupatoria)

Publication

1841

Description

One volume (of 4), Former Prophets only. Marginalia. Inscription on opening blank commemorating the death of “the crown of our head, Mordechai Hatzadik b. Simchah Hazaken Yerushalmi, pillar of the community, 4th Cheshvon 1845.”

references

Vinograd, Goslow 26.

summary

The Bible translated into Judeo-Tatar for the benefit of the community of Karaites located in the Russian Crimea. The final eight leaves contain an historically important list of subscribers from various Karaite communities. This copy contains 12 additional leaves not noted by Vinograd. Rare. No copy in the British Library. Both the JNUL and the Bodleian copies are incomplete.

ff. (4) 161, (8). Light wear, clean tear on f. 2. Contemporary calf, rubbed. 4to.

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