Auction 7 Books, Kodesh books, Hassidic books, Rabbinical letters, Manuscripts, Judaika objects and more
Oct 28, 2015 (Your local time)
Israel
 3 Mikunis St. Tel Aviv
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LOT 101:

Special and rare item—miniature sefer torah, written by hand on parchment, Breslov 1841.

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Sold for: $6,500
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Ink on parchment, Beit Yosef handwriting, Ashkenaz. Written nicely, with wooden shafts (eitz hayyim)—the left is original. Miniature: writing is 12cm, the parchment is 15.5cm in height, the shafts are 40cm. 42 lines in a page. On the bottom of the shaft is written “Made and completed here in Breslov, and the dedication was on Wednesday, Hoshana Raba of 1841. The book arrived in Israel with a family from Breslov in 1930. And was in the hands of the family, it was read from in public for many years. The left etz hayyim is original with the strip of parchment on the writing of the sefer, the right: an identical imitation, made at the start of the 20th century. The sefer underwent computer scanning, attached are the scanned pages. Not sold as a kosher scroll.

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