Jekuthiel Sofer

Jekuthiel Sofer was a prolific Jewish Sephardic scribe in Amsterdam in the 18th century.

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Sofer appears to have been commissioned by the Sephardic community in Amsterdam to create liturgical manuscripts in a unique style; he often wrote in letters with tagin, ritual script which can be used in a Sefer Torah or Megillah^{[disambiguation needed]}. However, in the case of Sofer's Tiengebodenbord decalogue manuscript, Sofer's style of artistic letterforms in Hebrew for artistic enjoyment expanded his reputation.

Sofer's earliest known manuscript, a miniature manuscript in parchment surviving in original binding, slipcase, and decorated endpapers (blue on gold), is today in the University of Pennsylvania Libraries as CAJS Rare Ms. 533; this manuscript is dated 5426 (1765–66) and was commissioned by an Ashkenazic patron; it is the Omer Counting, daily Psalms, and the Blessing of the New Moon. It appeared for sale at the 2019 Marx sale at Sotheby's in New York^[1]

This 1768 parchment (612x502 mm) by Jekuthiel Sofer emulated 1675 Tablets of the Law at the Esnoga synagogue of Amsterdam

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• The Tablets of the Law at the Bibliotheca Rosenthaliana

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