A lot has happened since I last posted here. New job, new apartment, etc. and both the Safrus and the blog fell by the wayside for a bit. I plan on writing and posting more this year, we'll see how that goes.
For now, I have some pictures that someone at
Mi Yodeya asked me for. These pictures come from a partial Sefer Torah I have. The script has been identified by experts as South German/Czech from around the 1850s give or take. I was asked for pictures of the sections used in tefillin. Unfortunately, my scroll begins somewhere in Vayikra so I could only get the last two. Here they are below in high resolution because my sister was having fun with a rented SLR.
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| Beginning of Shema. Note the clearer taggin on Shema relative to the rest of the page |
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| End of Shema. Note the strictly-Rambam paragraph break |
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| The last parsha. Again, note the paragraph break. |
Thanks for these photos. On closer look, this sefer is Czech. I have seen other examples of Czech safrut (and German safrut for that matter) since this sefer and I would not feel amiss in identifying it as Czech due to way in which the letters flow and the shape of certain letters, like ש and צ.
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