Sotheby’s is pleased to announce the 18 December sale of Important Judaica. Highlights include an exceptional group of manuscripts from the celebrated Montefiore and Sassoon collections. Among these are several medieval Yemenite codices of Maimonides’ Mishneh Torah, a fifteenth-century prayerbook according to the Romaniote rite, a translation of the Prophets and Writings into Aramaic dated 1486, numerous significant biblical and Talmudic commentaries, an illustrated Esther scroll that belonged to Flora Sassoon, and many other fine works representing the traditions and scholarship of both Eastern and Western Jewries.

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Sharon Liberman Mintz

International Senior Specialist, Judaica

Books, Manuscripts & Textiles

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Shaul Seidler-Feller

Senior Specialist, Judaica

Books, Manuscripts & Textiles

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Richard Austin

Global Head of Department | Books & Manuscripts

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