Apr 21, 2009 - Sale 2176

Sale 2176 - Lot 187

Price Realized: $ 600
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(BIBLE IN GREEK. OLD TESTAMENT. JOSHUA.) Josua-Rolle. Facsimile scroll, 300x10,040 mm, laced to wooden rollers at either end and housed in specially designed cloth display case (partly faded) with commentary booklet in German by Otto Mazal laid in. Graz, 1983
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one of 700 numbered copies. Facsimile of Vatican Ms. Pal. Gr. 431, a 10th-century illuminated scroll depicting scenes from the book of Joshua with excerpts from the Septuagint text, "considered the masterpiece of book art in the Macedonian Renaissance, so called after the Byzantine ruling dynasty of the 9th and 10th centuries" (Walther & Wolf 104).