Samuel (I) Chap. 5:9 - Chap. 6:5. Hebrew manuscript fragment.

(BIBLE).

(Germany

13th-century)

Single vellum leaf, written in two columns, 26 lines per column. Masorah between columns; nikud (vowel points) provided.

See D.S. Berkowitz, In Remembrance of Creation (1968), fig. 15C/D - with remarkably similar script to the present lot. Berkowitz describes at length a Bible in a remarkably similar hand from the Rhine Valley dated 1294: “The care which the scribe exercised in this work makes it clear that he conceived of it as a master work of Hebrew calligraphy. The letters are formed with precision and slanted slightly to the left, creating, as it were, the elegance of the italic style in Hebrew characters” (p. 13). Provenance: From the Collection of the late Daniel M. Friedenberg. Sold at Kestenbaum & Company, 29th June, 20014, Lot 229.