Parchment scroll, Written in square Ashkenazi script – Ktav “Bet Yossef”, 42 lines, Kosher for reading in the Synagogue with a blessing.
Many communities read Haftarot from a scroll like these instead of a printed Chumash.
The Vilna Gaon instituted the Haftarot to be read only from scrolls which contained the full text of a Prophetic Book (e.g., the full text of Yehoshua, or full text of Shofetim, or full text of Yeshayahu), just as a Torah scroll contains the full text of the Pentateuch. These scrolls are written in accordance with the laws of writing Torah scrolls, and thus – in the opinion of the Vilna Gaon – do not contain vowel points or cantillation signs.
Parchment 52.6 cm, 20.7 inches.
Good condition.
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