Bidspirit auction | Manuscript, Samaritan Machzor for Selichot

Manuscript, Samaritan Machzor for Selichot – Eretz Israel, 1871 - Manuscript, Samaritan machzor with prayers for the ten days of Selichot before Yom Kippur. [Shechem], 1871. Hebrew (Samaritan script) with some Arabic. Black and purple ink on paper. Manuscript produced by copyist Amin ibn Shalabi ibn Yaqub Shalabi HaDanafi. In middle of manuscript, colophon dated 1871. [21] leaves (last leaf blank). Bound with many blank leaves at beginning and end of volume. Approx. 20 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains, including dampstains (many stains to some leaves). Old leather binding, repaired. Wear and defects to binding. Bookplate of scholar and theologian Arthur James Mason (1851-1928), and dedication to him on one of endpapers.