Auction 26
Lot 059:
20 written volumes that contain thousands of pages, written in the astoundingly orderly handwriting of Dr. Shlomo Mandelkorn (1846-1902) with his monumental work – a concordance for the Bible ‘Heichal Hakodesh’ that was first published in Leipzig, 1896. This manuscript is from the estate of Feivish Margolin who purchased the rights to print the concordance from Mandelkorn and printed it for a second time in Berlin in 1925. In the manuscript the entries appear in an orderly manner with nice titles, some of them vowelized. One of the volumes is in different handwriting and its content appears to be comments or corrections, perhaps in Margolin’s handwriting. In the last volume, after Mandelkorn’s epilogue, which is written in pleasant vowelized block script, a notebook is bound that contains short paragraphs in Mandelkorn’s handwriting with no context, random paragraphs on different topics. Various doubts that arose in his mind “The usefulness of this book” – which we have not seen printed in the book. An article Mazkir Zichronot – an article with a Christian context and other writings. 20 folders bound in a hard cover, on the spines is typewritten “Manuscript of the concordance of the Bible Heichal Hakodesh by Dr. Shlomo Mandlekorn.” Stains and other blemishes. Very good overall condition. An important and fascinating historical document.
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