ILLUMINATED MACHZOR For YOM KIPPUR. Aschkenazi rite.

Estimate: $4,000–$6,000
Hammer price: $7,500

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

author

(LITURGY)

Place

Germany

Publication

ca. 1300

Description

Two leaves. Wide margins. 22 lines per page. Text in brown ink and other colors on vellum. Initial words in gold ink, surrounded by rich historiation in red; alternately, intials in red, surrounded by green historiation. The elaborate ornamentals include tendrils and several faces of people as well as a dog. The scribe has “hung” missing words between lines or in margins.

summary

Another page from this Machzor appears in the Catalogue of the Moldovan Family Collection. See A Mirror of Jewish Life: A Selection from the Moldovan Family Collection (Tel Aviv, 1999), no.6.

345 x 445 cm. In a few instances the chemicals in the gold ink have corroded the parchment. Framed

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