A57/016
TORAH – FIVE BOOKS OF MOSES
Vienna, 1815 Book format 8°, 416 p., in Hebrew. Bermosche Chumisch, Anton Schmid Verlag, Wien 1815. Hard leather binding, good condition. Edition of Torah for the swearing of the people of the Jewish faith in civil courts in Austria-Hungary, issue number 703. With an accompanying letter in German explaining and approving swearing on the script - the text describes the place where to lay a finger, otherwise touching the letters of the Torah by hand is not allowed. Signed by Rabbi Eleasar Flekeles, censor for Hebrew Carolus Fischer and Josua Pollack.