Auction 66 · Lot 29

Sefer Hazkarath Neshamoth [memorial ledger]

Estimate: $2,000–$3,000
Hammer price: $2,000

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

author

(HUNGARY)

Place

Bonyhad

Publication

1854

Description

Manuscript in Hebrew, written on vellum in a square Aschkenazic hand with additional single words in cursive script. Handsomely decorated title-page.

summary

A finely composed communal record-book, memorializing deceased members of the town of Bonyhad, located in Tolna County, south-western Hungary. Names recorded include those “who poured their silver and gold towards the fund of the Chevra Kadisha to have their names recited on the Fearful Fast (Yom Kippur) and the Three Festivals…” Includes influential members of the community, important rabbis and their wives, among them such rabbinic luminaries as R. Binyamin Zev Boskowitz (d. 1818) and R. Tzvi Hirsch Heller (d. 1834).

ff. 20 (excluding blanks). Worn and stained in places, few names effaced. Contemporary velvet-covered boards. 4to.

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