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LOT 0379
Hebrew Leather Bound Manuscript of Book of Psalms
NORTH AFRICA, 18TH-19TH CENTURY A.D.
9 x 6 1/2 in. (170 grams, 23 x 16.5 cm).
Morocco leather folding cover with applied gold-leaf and polychrome painted design to outer; holding a gathering of loose laid-paper sheets, some with extensive handwritten Hebrew texts. [No Reserve]
Provenance
From the collection of a London antiquarian, formed since the 1980s.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D’Amato.
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