HMAYIL, 1683 - Lot 5

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HMAYIL, 1683 - Lot 5
HMAYIL, 1683 Prophylactic scroll (hmayil, հմայիլ) handwritten and illuminated on laid paper. Notragir script, dimensions: 343 x 8 cm. The colophon states that it was executed in April 1683 by Mahdesi (Pilgrim) Simeon of Erznka (Erzincan). A second colophon indicates that Simeon took it with him on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem in 1702, the year of his father Mahdesi Yohan's death. Probably Constantinople, 1683. It consists of 9 miniatures. Fair condition, lacking the beginning of the scroll with some illustrations.
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