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

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.