Nov 11, 2008 - Sale 2162

Sale 2162 - Lot 97

Price Realized: $ 7,200
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Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
(DAVID BEN ARYEH LEIB, of Lida.) Sefer Seder ha-Mohel. Melukat mi-Sefer Sod ha-Shem be-Kitsur. manuscript in hebrew, written in partly vocalized Ashkenazi square script in brown ink on heavy vellum, with title within decorative penwork border. [22] leaves, the last 2 blank. 113x82 mm, contemporary brown calf attractively gilt-tooled to panel design filled in with miscellaneous ornamental tools. Altona: "nikhtav al yedei Uri Feibelman," 1733
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Unpublished abridgment of Sefer Sod ha-Shem, a 1680 treatise on circumcision by David of Lida. Feibelman was the scribe of the Jewish community of Altona. EJ V, 1348; Fishof, Jüdische Buchmalerei in Hamburg und Altona, page 33.