Miniature Ashkenazi Torah Scroll With Solid Silver Torah Ark Sitting on a fine carved wooden stand the Mount Sinai
Scroll of 55 membranes 6” tall made of parchment; written by a professional Scribe (Sofer Stam) in Ashkenazic Beit yosef script with black ink
There are three to eight columns per membrane (total: 248 columns) and forty-two lines per column;
horizontally and vertically ruled in hardpoint on the recto; justification of lines via dilation or contraction of final letters.
The Songs of the Sea (Ex. 15:1-19) and of Moses (Deut. 32:1-43) are laid out to look like brickwork (ariah al gabbei levenah and ariah al gabbei ariah, respectively);
the custom of vavei ha-ammudim is perfectly implemented Ink episodically faded
Mounted on modern embellished silver rollers, each surmounted by a crown; accompanied by a cowhide Velcro Torah mantle .
In order to fulfill the biblical ordinance enjoining every person to write his own Torah scroll, people of means who are not themselves expert in the laws attaching thereto sometimes sponsor a scribe to write one on their behalf. While most communal scrolls used in synagogues for ritual purposes are large and heavy, their privately-owned cousins tend to be diminutive and portable. This allows their owners not only to store them more easily, but also to transport them from place to place. The present lot, executed in miniature, is accompanied by an undersized Torah mantle and binder. Naturally, the degree of proficiency required to produce a small scroll like this one is beyond the ability of all but the most skilled scribes. Torah scrolls of such minute dimensions are thus extremely rare and highly prized.
Luxurious Miniature holy Torah ark made of solid sterling silver, topped by a 5-inch torah crown Hanging silver chains with gilded bells (no belles are missing) two doors gilded writing on the doors Ten Commandments. Ark by itself weights 70.2 toz – 1998 grams, 16-inch without the base, 5.5-inch wooden base
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