Lot 381
Assorted Collection of Manuscripts, and Handwritten and Printed Leaves, Including Fragments of Early Printed Leaves
Assorted collection of manuscripts, manuscript and printed leaf fragments, and more.
The collection includes:
• Various manuscripts in Oriental script [mostly Baghdad or India]
• Binding of a book made from manuscript leaves, including leaves from a manuscript of Minhagei Fez and other manuscripts.
• Fragments of early printed leaves from a "bindings genizah", including leaf fragment from a Bomberg edition of the Talmud (Venice 1521), leaf fragment from Rav Alfas, Constantinople 1509 and other leaves (including several leaves from books printed by Soncino in Constantinople, 16th century)
• [7] leaves from the Book of Kohelet with Rashi.
• Various printed leaves, including broadsides related to the Babylonian community in Jerusalem, and more.
Approx. 50 items. Size and condition vary.
Provenance: Sassoon Family Collection.
