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Miniature Torah scroll
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7,000 - 10,000 USD
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Description
- paper, ink, wooden roller
Manuscript scroll (Height of parchment: 4 1/2 in.; 115 mm:: Height of text: 3 1/4 in.; 83 mm). Written in ink on parchment, in "Beit Yosef" script (generally used by those following Ashkenazi tradition, from Germany, England, Russia, and Lithuania); Vavei ha-Amudim; 38-43 lines; 246 columns on 49 membranes, sewn with gidin. Several scribal text repairs; otherwise and worn as expected. Mounted on rollers (one wood, one brass). Housed in a navy velvet bag with embroidery.
It is usually the practice of Torah scribes to maintain a consistent number of lines per column. The scribe of the present scroll, however, apparently varied the number of lines in order to achieve and maintain a particular arrangement of the text called vavei ha-amudim. This is when the biblical text is laid out so that all but six of the text columns in a Torah Scroll begin with the letter vav, a custom that has its beginnings in late 12th or early 13th century Ashkenaz.
It is usually the practice of Torah scribes to maintain a consistent number of lines per column. The scribe of the present scroll, however, apparently varied the number of lines in order to achieve and maintain a particular arrangement of the text called vavei ha-amudim. This is when the biblical text is laid out so that all but six of the text columns in a Torah Scroll begin with the letter vav, a custom that has its beginnings in late 12th or early 13th century Ashkenaz.