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Feb 17, 2025
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LOT 12:
Sefirat HaOmer – Miniature Manuscript Scroll with Color Illustrations – Central or Northern Europe, 18th Century
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Sold for: $22,000 (₪78,188)
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Sefirat HaOmer – Miniature Manuscript Scroll with Color Illustrations – Central or Northern Europe, 18th Century
Handwritten parchment scroll, long and narrow, with the order of Sefirat HaOmer and color illustrations. [Central Europe or the Netherlands, ca. 18th century].
Ink and paint on parchment.
Miniature-format scroll, written in Ashkenazic square script, on 8 narrow parchment membranes (and one additional small piece of parchment), sewn together.
The long scroll is divided into squares, mostly of equal size, with thin, colored frames, featuring alternately the Omer counting (with short kabbalistic Kavanot in semi-cursive "Rashi" script for each day), and over 60 miniature illustrations in red, blue, turquoise and sepia.
Most of the illustrations depict soldiers – riding on horses in ornate uniforms (presumably those of the Austrian army in the 18th century), capped with tricornes and feathered Shakos, manning cannons, driving horse-drawn carriages, rowing boats, marching in file, waving flags, blowing trumpets or beating drums. Additional illustrations depict palaces and castles, the zodiac wheel with the sun at its center, and more.
The first square of the scroll contains a Biblical verse for Pesach, while the next columns of text are dedicated to the Counting of the Omer. After the count for the 49th day appear verses relating to Shavuot and other holidays (Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur and Sukkot), concluding with the blessing Bore Nefashot, and Birchot HaNehenin and brachot for various sights.
Height: 4.5 cm; length of parchment: 484 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains, including dark stains, and damage, slightly affecting text and illustrations. Ink fading in some places. Slight tears and open tears, professionally restored. Edge of first membrane torn and lacking, repaired with piece of parchment (slightly affecting frame of first illustration). Scroll placed in a leather case (new).
Provenance: Christie's, New York, June 28, 2006, Lot 425.
