Machzor Rome, a lavishly illuminated 15th-century Italian-Hebrew manuscript of festival prayers, fetched a record $1,157,500 at a Judaica auction in Tel Aviv last week.
Considered one of the finest Italian Jewish Renaissance manuscripts, the work was offered by an anonymous American collector and purchased by an unidentified private non-Israeli collector.
The auction, the eighth held in Tel Aviv by Sotheby’s international house, took in a total $2,378,000, double the amount brought last year.
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