Auction 49 Part I - Books, Chassidism, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters
Collection of Leaf Fragments Removed from the Binding Geniza – 14th/15th Century
Opening: $300
Sold for: $425
Including buyer's premium
Collection of leaf fragments removed from the Binding Geniza: · More than 15 leaf fragments, from a manuscript of an unidentified Hebrew composition on medical topics. [Sephardi writing, end of 14th century or beginning of the 15th century]. Watermarks on leaves correlate to paper produced in North Italy in the second half of the 14th century. · Fragments from an ancient manuscript of a Chumash with Targum (Scriptures and Targum, verse after verse), [ancient Oriental vowelized writing, 13th/14th century?]. · Fragments from a Yemenite manuscript. Approximately 20 leaf fragments, varied size and damages sustained by removal from binding.
Ancient Manuscripts
Ancient Manuscripts