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Bidding Information
Lot #    10028
Auction End Date    4/19/2005 10:14:00 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Sefer Goralot (Book of Lots)
Title (Hebrew)    ספר גורלות
Author    [Ms.]
City    Zinkow
Publisher    Aaron Hayyim b. Daviv Mordecai, Scribe
Publication Date    1852
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    [2], 18 ff., 160:100 mm., ink on heavy paper, light age staining, beautiful Ashkenazic hand, signed and dated, bound in modern boards.
          
Detailed
Description		    According to its preface, it discloses the "great secret of securing an answer without the drawing of lots or computation, by indifferently putting one's hand on a tablet containing seventy two letters and counting an equal number of letters on corresponding charts." The work is similiar to the Sefer Goralot of Ahithophel where the result is found by indifferently putting one's hand on a tablet containing the numbers one to ninety, or eighty-nine.
          
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Listing Classification
Period
19th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Russia-Poland:    Checked
  
Subject
Other:    Folklore
  
Characteristic
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
Other:    Book
  
Kind of Judaica