Auction 37 - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters

Handwritten Calendar – Artistic Title Page – Germany, 1841

Opening: $3,000
Sold for: $3,750
Including buyer's premium
Manuscript – "Calendar for 142 years, from 1840-1981, by Moshe ben Ya'akov, [Germany], 1841.
Artistic title page, made with the technique of cutting and gluing illustrated adornments. Ashkenazi writing. Written on a notebook with a handsome binding and illustrated forsatz leaves.
The calendar has charts for calculating 142 years (until 1981), arrangement for 14 calendars for determining the years, an intensive composition on astronomy, "The path of the seven planets each week", chronicles (list of historical dates), Luach HaTamid – for the order of the weekly Torah portions (illustrated adornment, cut and glued).
[4], 100, [7] pages. 16 cm. Good condition. Stains, few moth marks. Ownership inscriptions and stamps. Damaged binding.
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