Psalms). Tehillim with Yiddish translation.

Estimate: $3,000–$5,000
Hammer price: Not recorded

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

author

(BIBLE

printer

S. Proops

Place

Amsterdam

Publication

1724

Description

Accompanied by an 18th-century miniature Shivithi manuscript leaf on vellum. 2 x 3 inches. Artistic micrographic depiction of a menorah in the center, with verses of Psalm LXVII arranged in shape of the seven-branches of the candelabrum, with stylized flowers at the base. Used as a bookmark.

references

Vinograd, Amsterdam 1246 (not in NLI).

summary

A rare Tehillim in a distinctive binding accompanied by a delightful miniature Hebrew manuscript book-mark.

ff. 196, 12. Signatures and inscriptions by former owners on front and back fly leaves in Hebrew, German and Danish including family histories dated 1769-1842. Contemporary morocco with silver clasps and hinges engraved with initial “JG 1736” on the clasps, slightly rubbed at edges. 12mo.

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