Seder Teki'at Shofar (Order of Shofar Blowing), Manuscript on Parchment, Scribe: Tzvi Hirsch of Kanisza, for Isaac ben Issachar Ber of Luckenbach: Austria/Hungary: 2 October 1796

Estimate

6,000 - 8,000 USD

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Description

paper

8 leaves (10 x 6 3/4 in.; 255 x 172 mm). Written in brown ink on parchment in Ashkenazic square, semi-cursive, and STAM. Very lightly soiled. Contemporary tree-calf; trace worming to boards only, not entering textblock.

Literature

Immanuel Etkes, The Besht: Magician, Mystic, and Leader: 2004

Catalogue Note

This manuscript contains prayers for Rosh ha-Shanah, including the haftarot (readings from the books of the Prophets) for both days of the Jewish New Year as well as verses to be recited during the sounding of the shofar (ram's horn). In the 18^th and 19^th centuries, it was not uncommon for individuals to create personal manuscript liturgies to augment the more comprehensive texts of printed prayer books. The scribe of this manuscript included the mystical intentions of Rabbi Isaac Luria as they appeared in the kabbalistic treatise Amtahat Binyamin written by the Baal Shem Binyamin Binush. The colophon (f.1r) records that the scribe completed the commission on the eve of the New Year of 5557.