Pinkas Chevrath Bikur Cholim.

Estimate

$1,500–$2,000

Hammer price

$1,500

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

author

(UKRAINE)

Place

Ustyluh (Ustila)

Publication

1761-c.1863

Description

Manuscript in Hebrew, written in cursive Ashkenazic hands, on paper.

summary

Communal ledger of a social and charitable society. The ledger opens with a list of rules and regulations for the members of the society, followed by names of the annually elected officers. Records expenditures and specifies that funds from the society are to be used to assist in organizing community weddings and circumcisions. Regulates honors due at life-cycle events, including the selection of a Sandek by means of a lottery. Ustyluh is a small hamlet situated near the Poland-Ukraine border alongside the Bug River. See Pinkas HaKehilot - Poland, Vol. 5 (1990) pp. 32-4).

ff. 36 (incomplete). Each leaf remargined, worn and torn in places, various paper repairs. Recased retaining upper cover of original(?) binding. Sm. 4to.

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