Apr 21, 2009 - Sale 2176

Sale 2176 - Lot 195

Price Realized: $ 4,320
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 2,000
THE NORTH FRENCH HEBREW MISCELLANY (British Library Add. MS 11639). 2 volumes. Facsimile volume thick small 8vo in original calf gilt replicating 16th-century binding on the original manuscript, commentary volume 8vo in original vellum; publisher's cloth slipcases. London, 2003

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one of 360 numbered sets. Facsimile of "the finest surviving northern European Hebrew manuscript of its period" (commentary volume, page 15), a 13th-century compilation of over 80 biblical, liturgical, legal, literary, and other texts.