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The book of Genesis, with interpretations by six commentators, and readings from the Prophets relating to the main text : scribal manuscript : Holland, ca. 1700.

BIB_ID
157478
Accession number
MA 23457
Display Date
ca. 1700.
Credit line
Gift of the Trustees of the Dannie and Hettie Heineman collection, 1977.
Description
1 item (118 leaves) : on vellum ; 33 cm
Notes
Frontispiece drawing of Moses and Aaron, with roundels illustrating scenes from Genesis (leaf 2 recto).
Inscriptions/Markings
1 leaf of 19th-century German manuscript description, signed by Martin Heinrich Roch, Preslau (i.e. Wroclaw, Poland), 14 August 1816. 19th-century German notes referring to Schaffgotsch ownership (leaf 1 recto).
Provenance
Counts of Schaffgotsch (Silesia, Poland), armorial bookplate (signed: "C[hristian]. Winckler fecit") with inscribed date 1737 (rear pastedown); unidentified shelfmark: F.b.2 (rear endleaf 2 recto); Dannie and Hettie Heineman.
Housed in
Blue cloth drop-spine box (37.5 cm)