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Lot 25 Miniature Gold and Enamel Case for Esther Scroll – Israel, 20th Century

Case for Esther scroll. [Israel, second half of 20th century].

14-karat gold (marked with Israeli fineness mark), filigr

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Miniature Gold and Enamel Case for Esther Scroll – Israel, 20th Century

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Case for Esther scroll. [Israel, second half of 20th century].

14-karat gold (marked with Israeli fineness mark), filigree; enamel; print on paper.

Miniature Esther scroll, printed on paper, and housed inside a gold-thread case surmounted by a crown-shaped ornament and a suspension ring.

On the front of case is set a Star of David adorned in blue enamel, framing the Hebrew word "Zion".

Height: 9 cm. Maximal width: 2 cm. Weight: 22 g. Good condition. Minor tear to leading edge of scroll. Pull bar detached.

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Lot 26 Esther Scroll in Silver Filigree Case – Jerusalem

Esther scroll housed in decorated case. Jerusalem [second half of 20th century]. Marked: "Made in Israel" [Englis

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Esther scroll housed in decorated case. Jerusalem [second half of 20th century]. Marked: "Made in Israel" [English], and "Yerushalayim" [Hebrew].

Ink on parchment; silver, filigree (unmarked).

HaMelech ("The King") Esther scroll (i.e., most columns headed with the word HaMelech). Written on 3 sheets of parchment glued together, 30 columns of text, 14 lines per column.

Scroll housed in elegant silver filigree case, modeled after 19th-century European cases. Upper ornament set with green glass stone.

Height of parchment sheets: 5 cm. Overall good condition. Few stains and creases. Height of case: 21.5 cm. Good condition.

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Lot 27 Large-Format Esther Scroll – Israel, 20th Century

Esther scroll. [Israel, second half of 20th century].

Ink on parchment.

Esther scroll written in Ashkenazi script on

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Large-Format Esther Scroll – Israel, 20th Century

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Esther scroll. [Israel, second half of 20th century].

Ink on parchment.

Esther scroll written in Ashkenazi script on 4 sheets of parchment sewn together, 16 columns of text, 28 lines per column.

Height of parchment sheets: 29.5 cm. Very good condition. Few stains.

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Lot 28 Esther Scroll – Israel, 20th Century

Esther scroll. [Israel, second half of 20th century].

Ink on parchment.

Esther scroll, written in Ashkenazi script o

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Esther scroll. [Israel, second half of 20th century].

Ink on parchment.

Esther scroll, written in Ashkenazi script on 4 sheets of parchment sewn together, 20 columns of text, 21 lines per column.

Height of parchment sheets: approx. 17.5 cm. Very good condition. Few stains.

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Lot 29 Parchment Scroll – The Book of Ruth – Jerusalem, Early 20th Century

Parchment Megillat Ruth. [Jerusalem, ca. early 20th century].

Ink on parchment in large format. Neat, elegant Ashkenazic

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Parchment Scroll – The Book of Ruth – Jerusalem, Early 20th Century

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Parchment Megillat Ruth. [Jerusalem, ca. early 20th century].

Ink on parchment in large format. Neat, elegant Ashkenazic (Beit Yosef) Stam script, characteristic of the circle of scribes active in Jerusalem in the 1890s-1910s; the permanence of ink is also characteristic of this circle. 42 lines, in four columns on one membrane.

Height of parchment: 55.5 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains and creases.

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Lot 30 Parchment Scroll – Kohelet – Jerusalem, Early 20th Century

Parchment megillat Kohelet. [Jerusalem, ca. early 20th century].

Ink on parchment in large format. Neat, elegant Ashkena

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Parchment Scroll – Kohelet – Jerusalem, Early 20th Century

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Parchment megillat Kohelet. [Jerusalem, ca. early 20th century].

Height of parchment: 56 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains and creases.

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Lot 31 Mishlei with Latin Translation – Basel, 1524 – Old Leather Binding

Mishlei – Proverbia Salomonis, the Book of Mishlei with a Latin translation, by Sebastian Münster. Basel: Froben, 1524

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Mishlei – Proverbia Salomonis, the Book of Mishlei with a Latin translation, by Sebastian Münster. Basel: Froben, 1524.

Old leather binding, with gilt decorations to spine and edges of binding.

Hebrew and Latin on facing pages. Notes on translation by Münster after the Book of Mishlei.

Introduction by Münster. Recommendation to reader by Konrad Pellikan.

Froben's printer's device appears on title page and on verso of last leaf.

Notations within text and many handwritten glosses (Latin) on margins. Late ownership inscriptions on title page.

[132] leaves. 16 cm. Good condition. Stains. Marginal tears to two leaves, not affecting text, repaired with paper. Old leather binding. Wear and defects to binding.

Secular date of printing appears at end of Münster's introduction.

Joseph Prijs, Basle, no. 16.

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Lot 32 Trei Asar – Frankfurt an der Oder, 1595 – Interleaved Copy with Many Handwritten Inscriptions – Early Parchment Binding from Latin Liturgical Music Manuscript

Trei Asar – the twelve minor prophets. [Frankfurt an der Oder: Yochanan and Friedrich Hartman, 1595].

Interleaved copy,

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Trei Asar – Frankfurt an der Oder, 1595 – Interleaved Copy with Many Handwritten Inscriptions – Early Parchment Binding from Latin Liturgical Music Manuscript

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Trei Asar – the twelve minor prophets. [Frankfurt an der Oder: Yochanan and Friedrich Hartman, 1595].

Interleaved copy, with blank leaves bound between leaves for additions and notes. The present copy was apparently owned by a Hebraist, as the blank leaves were filled in with many handwritten notes (German and some Latin) relating to the translation of words and expressions appearing in the text.

Early parchment binding, composed of a liturgical manuscript in Latin, with musical notes (fine piece of leather with colorful and gilt illustrations mounted on front of binding).

The Hartman brothers printed several Bible editions in various sizes the same year.

One of the first Hebrew books printed in Frankfurt an der Oder.

[51] leaves. 17 cm. Somewhat dark paper. Good condition. Stains. Early parchment binding. Minor defects to binding.

Bookplate of Mozes Heiman Gans.

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Lot 33 Torah, Neviim Rishonim and Divrei HaYamim – Geneva, 1617-1618 – Pocket Format

Five Books of the Torah, Neviim Rishonim and Divrei HaYamim. Geneva: Cephas Elon, 1617-1618. Two volumes. Pocket format.

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Torah, Neviim Rishonim and Divrei HaYamim – Geneva, 1617-1618 – Pocket Format

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Five Books of the Torah, Neviim Rishonim and Divrei HaYamim. Geneva: Cephas Elon, 1617-1618. Two volumes. Pocket format.

Volume I in early parchment binding.

Colophon on last leaf.

Glosses and many handwritten inscriptions (Latin), within text and margins in first volume.

Two volumes. Volume I (Torah). Bereshit: [127] leaves. Lacking title page. Shemot: [108] leaves. Vayikra: [75] leaves. Bamidbar: [101] leaves. Lacking 6 leaves in middle (leaves 2-7 of sixth gathering). Devarim: [94] leaves. Lacking last leaf. Volume II (Neviim Rishonim and Divrei HaYamim). Yehoshua and Shoftim: [130] leaves. Shmuel: [151] leaves. Melachim: [159] leaves. Divrei HaYamim: [155] leaves. Blank leaves bound between books. 11-11.5 cm. First volume in good-fair condition, second volume in good condition. Stains. Wear in first volume. Small marginal tears in several places. Slightly loose gatherings in first volume. Volume I in early parchment binding (with tears and defects), and volume II in new binding with parchment spine and corners.

[159] leaves recorded in Bibliography of the Hebrew Book and NLI catalogue (likely additional blank leaves at end of volume).

Provenance: Mozes Heiman Gans.

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Lot 34 Two Miniature Chumashim – Venice, 16th/17th Century – Original Leather Binding

Two Chumashim, Bereshit and Devarim, from an early edition of the Five Books of the Torah. [Venice, ca. second half of 16th

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Two Miniature Chumashim – Venice, 16th/17th Century – Original Leather Binding

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Two Chumashim, Bereshit and Devarim, from an early edition of the Five Books of the Torah. [Venice, ca. second half of 16th or first half of 17th century]. Two volumes.

Two Chumashim from a Torah edition printed in Venice. It is unclear which edition they were printed as part of, and they may originate in an unknown edition.

Two volumes. Bereshit: 2-7, 10-94 leaves. Lacking title page and leaves 8-9. Devarim: [307]-[374] leaves. Lacking first two leaves (title page, as well as another leaf, based on collation), as well as continuation, which probably included Shir HaShirim and haftarot. 8.5 cm. Fair-good condition. Stains, including dampstains. Wear and signs of use to first volume. Small marginal tears to several leaves. Close trimming, affecting text (especially second volume, affecting tops of pages, with page headers and foliation lacking). Original leather binding. Wear and defects to bindings.

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Lot 35 Tehillim – Leiden, 1637 – Early Leather Binding

Book of Tehillim. Leiden: Joannes Maire, 1637.

Every fifth verse numbered.

Signatures and ownership inscriptions (Eng

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Tehillim – Leiden, 1637 – Early Leather Binding

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Book of Tehillim. Leiden: Joannes Maire, 1637.

Every fifth verse numbered.

Signatures and ownership inscriptions (English) on endpaper and title page.

[120] leaves. 11.5 cm. Overall good condition. Stains. Loose and detached gatherings. Gilt edges, affecting headers of several pages. Early leather binding. Wear and defects to binding (tears and parts missing from spine).

Bookplate of Mozes Heiman Gans.

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Lot 36 Five Books of the Torah, Tikun Sofrim – Amsterdam, 1666 – Illustrated Title Page – Special Copy with Printed Dedication to Rabbi and Printer R. Avraham Yitzchak Castilo

Five Books of the Torah, Tikun Sofrim. Amsterdam: David de Castro Tartas, [1666].

Two title pages, the first illustrated

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Five Books of the Torah, Tikun Sofrim – Amsterdam, 1666 – Illustrated Title Page – Special Copy with Printed Dedication to Rabbi and Printer R. Avraham Yitzchak Castilo

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Five Books of the Torah, Tikun Sofrim. Amsterdam: David de Castro Tartas, [1666].

Two title pages, the first illustrated with fine hand-colored engraving of Biblical scenes; this leaf was detached and mounted on the endpaper, while the second title page appears afterwards. Small parts of illustrations hand-colored on second title page as well as leaf 3.

Next to second title page, mounted leaf (attached approx. 100 years after the book was printed), decorated with fine color illustrations, with a printed dedication to "the comprehensive scholar, the excellent dayan, sweet singer of Israel, of great renown… Yitzchak Castilo, a gift from me… Mordechai Tama".

R. Avraham Yitzchak Castilo (1726-1789), a rabbi and printer of Livorno, preacher and poet. The Chida, asked to give a Shabbat Shuvah sermon in place of R. Avraham Yitzchak Castilo about a year after his passing, praised him profusely on that occasion.

R. Mordechai Tama was a publisher in Amsterdam. He translated and annotated responsa of the Rambam from manuscript, published under the name Pe'er HaDor (Amsterdam, 1765).

The book was printed at the instruction of the philanthropist Shmuel son of Yitzchak Baruch Rosa (his printed signature at bottom of title page, trimmed in present copy).

Sabbatean allusions on divisional title page for haftarot.

Includes chart of Torah readings and Spanish charts (folding leaves). Divisional title page in Hebrew and Spanish, Amsterdam, 1667.

[3], 3-120, 211-234, 234-249, 230-239, 239-248, 248-271, 205-446, [14] leaves, 9-14 pages, [3] folding chart leaves, [1] leaf. First [10] leaves originally at beginning of book bound after haftarot. 14.5 cm. Gilt edges (partially faded), gauffered. Overall good condition. Stains. Light wear. Marginal tears to several leaves. Old leather binding. Wear and defects to binding.

Bookplate of Mozes Heiman Gans.

Bookplate of Arthur E. Franklin (Arthur Ellis Franklin, 1857-1938, Jewish British banker, a central figure in the Jewish community of Great Britain in the interwar period).

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