Esther scroll. [Transylvania, ca. 19th/20th century].
Ink on parchment. Neat Ashkenazic Stam script. 42 lines per column. With tin case and lid. The bottom of the case and lid are engraved with the name of the owner, R. "Menachem Mendel Deutsch" – from whose estate the present Megillah derives.

R. Menachem Mendel Deutsch of Deyzh (ca. 1860s-1942), disciple of the Yitav Lev and close disciple of the Maaglei Tzedek of Deyzh. He immigrated to Eretz Israel and authored and published Mevi Tzedek.

Parchment scroll. 4 membranes, comprising 12 columns. Height of parchment: 36 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains and creases. Some letters were deleted and faded. The scroll is placed in an original tin case, with some warping.

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Five Books of the Torah, Neviim and Ketuvim. Geneva: Kafa [Cephas] Elon, 1618.
Vocalized Bible. Two columns per page. Divisional title pages for Neviim Rishonim, Neviim Acharonim and Ketuvim (Five Megillot printed after the Torah, without divisional title page).
Ketuvim title page differs from the other title pages, and is not found in all copies.
Two columns per page, like the Bible edition used by R. Aryeh Levin for Goral HaGra, following a special tradition transmitted from the Vilna Gaon.
Handwritten inscriptions of chapter numbers and totals of verses.

369; 124 leaves. Leaves 103-104 of first sequence bound out of place, after leaf 100. 21.5 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains, including dampstains. Minor wear to some leaves. Creases to title page at beginning of volume. Tears, including small marginal open tears to several leaves, slightly affecting text of second leaf. Trimming of Ketuvim title page slightly affecting bottom of illustrated frame. Second leaf mostly detached. Old binding, with leather spine and corners and original colorful endpaper. Wear and damage to binding.


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Tikun Sofrim, year-round Torah portions and Haftarot. Amsterdam: for Samuel Rodrigues Mendes, Moses Sarfati and David Gomes da Silva, 1726.
Title pages illustrated with copper engravings by Bernard Picart. Divisional title page for Haftarot. Includes table of Torah readings for the festivals, and tables in Spanish (folding leaves), with divisional title page in Hebrew and Spanish.
After the Haftarot section are bound leaves which usually appear at the beginning of the volume: poems in praise of the edition, cantillation, a chart for the festival readings, corrections by the proofreader, and more. Two leaves missing, with approbation and chart of double Torah portions.
Stamps of "Saadat Bachurim" society (Amsterdam).

[3], 3-327, [2], 329-446, [10] leaves; 9-16 pages; [3] folding leaves with charts, [2] leaves. [6] leaves originally bound at the beginning of the book are bound after the Haftarot section. Missing [2] leaves at the beginning of the book. 17 cm. High-quality paper. Good condition. Stains. Small tears and creases to a few leaves. Old binding, with leather spine. Light wear and light damage to binding.

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Ezrat HaSofer, "Tikun Sofrim Vavei HaAmudim", Shemot through Devarim, with Haftarot, and with Or Torah by R. Menachem de Lonzano. Amsterdam: Gerhard Johann Janson at press of Yisrael Mondovi, [1767-1769]. Four of five volumes. Illustrated half-title in all volumes, dated 1769. Other title pages dated 1767. Divisional title pages for Haftarot sections, dated 1768.

Fine copies, bound in original elegant leather binding adorned with silver clasps.
Does not contain Bereshit volume with Meir Nativ, a work on Holy Names in the Torah, by R. Yehuda Pisa. Printed at the end of the Book of Devarim is the Haftarah of Shabbat Eichah with Spanish translation (verse per verse), and Luchot HaIbur (calendrical tables; divisional title page; Hebrew and Portuguese).
This book was prepared as a model for scribes writing a Torah scroll (conforming with the custom known as Vavei HaAmudim – each column of the Torah scroll starting with the letter Vav). Shirat HaYam and Shirat Haazinu are printed on wider leaves, fitting with their layout in the Torah scroll.

Four volumes. Shemot: [1], [66]-121; [2], 28 leaves. Vayikra: [1], [122]-163; [2], 24 leaves. Bamidbar: [2], [165]-221; [2], 16 leaves. Devarim: [2], [223]-272, [2]; [3], 277-290; [8] leaves. Approx. 20 cm. High-quality paper. Gilt edges. Good condition. Stains. Original leather bindings, with many gilt decorations, original color endpaper and silver clasps (one clasp damaged and missing fastener). Wear and damage to bindings and spines.
Another edition was published in the same period, without vowels, cantillation marks and chapter numbers.

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Five Books of the Torah, with Targumim and commentaries of Rashi, Rashbam, Ibn Ezra, Baal HaTurim, Tochachat Musar by the Shlah and Totzeot Chaim by R. Chaim of Boskovitz, with Haftarot and Five Megillot. Vienna: Anton Schmidt, 1794.
Fine copy, printed on high-quality paper, with wide margins and original leather bindings.
Some words on title page printed in red ink.

Five volumes. Bereshit: [4], 98, [2] leaves. Shemot: 125 leaves. Vayikra: [1], 64-74 leaves. Bamidbar: 68, 29-35, 15-16 leaves. Devarim: 80, 19-42 leaves. 36.5 cm. Gilt edges. Wide margins. Good condition. Stains. Original leather bindings, with gilt decorations and original color endpaper. Wear and damage to bindings.

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