Yad Dovid [novellae to Tractate Yevamoth]

Estimate: $8,000–$10,000
Hammer price: $7,000

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author

SINZHEIM, JOSEPH DAVID BEN ISAAC.

Place

France

Publication

Late 18th century

Description

Autograph Manuscript in Hebrew, written in a cursive Aschkenazic hand on paper. Each page ruled in red ink with the text in the middle, the page numbers of the tractate on one side and occasional marginal notes on the other side.

references

See Eliakim Carmoly, Revue Orientale, Vol. II, p. 340.

summary

AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT. The senior and most learned member of the Assembly of Notables, Chief Rabbi of Strasbourg Joseph David Sinzheim (1745-1812) was appointed president (Nasi) by Napoleon himself of the famed Grand Sanhedrin of Paris.

ff. 91. Final leaf loose. Modern polished tree-calf. Sm. folio.

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