Sefer Haftarot for Shabbats, annual holidays, high holidays, for the arba parashiyot and special Shabbats. Scribal script on parchment.
Ashkenazic script. Vowelized with cantillation. Rolled like a meggilah. [Western Germany, 18th century.] Complete meggilah!
The custom of writing all the haftarot in a sefer of their own is an early minhag , from the period of the amora’im . This custom is mentioned in the gemara in Tractate Gittin (leaf 60), called Sifra D’Aftarata . However, the custom was abandoned due to the severity of the prohibition of writing less than a complete sefer , as stated in the gemara, “The sefer of haftarahs may not be used for reading on Shabbat. Why? Because it may not be written (less than a complete sefer – Rash”i, there in Gittin).
There are also communities at present with the custom of reading the haftarah from a parchment scroll. They read from a complete sefer Navi . This is a rare and early scroll, including the haftarot in one sefer .
Sheet width: Approximately 34 cm.
Moderate-fine condition.Minimal tears and adhesions, primarily at the beginning and the end.