Auction 93 Part 1 - Manuscripts, Prints and Engravings, Objects and Facsimiles, from the Gross Family Collection, and Private Collections

Colorful, Decorated Manuscript, Piyyutim and Songs – Morocco, 1916

Opening: $500
Sold for: $1,375
Including buyer's premium

Manuscript, piyyutim and songs for Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, and more. [Morocco, 1916].
Western script. The manuscript is decorated throughout with fine ornaments, in typical Moroccan style, colored in orange and green hues. Including 14 pages decorated with carpets and architectonic borders comprising horseshoe arches.
Includes piyyutim for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, complementing the North–African machzor for the High Holidays (with references to the machzor). Scribe's colophon on p. [21a], with his calligraphic signature, and the date of completion: Monday 5th Tishrei 1916.
Several additional leaves bound after the colophon, with various piyyutim.


[31] leaves. 15 cm. Good–fair condition. Stains, including dampstains. Worming, slightly affecting text. Tears and minor open tears, slightly affecting text, repaired in part with tape. Fine, new leather binding (with ornaments copied from manuscript).


Provenance: The Gross Family Collection, Tel Aviv, MO.011.022.

Moroccan and North African Jewry – Manuscripts and Letters
Moroccan and North African Jewry – Manuscripts and Letters