Pinkas Chevrah Ner Tamid [a ledger of the deceased]

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

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author

(CHEVRA KADISHA).

Place

Mattenboden (Germany?)

Publication

1833

Description

Manuscript in Hebrew, written in an Aschkenazic calligraphic and square hand with vowel points on vellum.

summary

Prayers for the members of the community, with most of the names with later ink erasure. Includes an alphabetically arranged poem “Mizmor L’Melech” in memory of the deceased and Maoz Tzur (without the final stanza).

ff. (8). Light wear. Contemporary tree-calf, rubbed. Tall 8vo.

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