Oct 20, 2009 - Sale 2190

Sale 2190 - Lot 263

Price Realized: $ 3,360
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
(BIBLE IN HEBREW.) The Kennicott Bible. 2 volumes. Folio, facsimile in elaborately blind-stamped brown morocco replicating the contemporary Hispano-Moresque box binding on the original manuscript, commentary volume in brown morocco; publisher's velvet-lined cloth folding case (somewhat rubbed). London: Facsimile Editions, 1985

Additional Details

one of only fifty sets ad personam, originally belonging to the designer and dedicatee Jesse Zierler, of an edition of 550. Completed in La Coruña in 1476 and acquired by Oxford in 1771 at the suggestion of the scholar Benjamin Kennicott, the Bible named after him "is regarded to-day as one of the most sumptuous Hebrew illuminated manuscripts and a masterpiece of mediaeval Sephardi art" (commentary volume, page 10).