Record ID:
157478
Accession number:
MA 23457
Uniform title:
Bible. Genesis. Hebrew. ca. 1700.
Date:
ca. 1700.
Credit:
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).
Housed in:
Blue cloth drop-spine box (37.5 cm)
Binding:
18th-century Polish gilt-tooled brown calf over paper boards (33 x 24.5 cm), with printed paste paper pastedowns and endleaves. Gilt edges. In blind-tooled brown calf slip case.
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.
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