Lot 286
Manuscripts – Morocco
• Volume of manuscripts composed of various sections: Laws of Shechita in Mugrabi Jewish-Arabic; piyutim; novellae on the Torah; homiletics and eulogies; Midrash and novellae; Sefer HaGoralot. [Morocco, 19th century]. The last sections have signatures of the writer: "Eyus ben Avraham Malka".
• Manuscript, homiletics and piyutim, and various lists. [Tiberias?, c. 1880]. Bound with copy (lacking title page) of Sefer HaPizmonim, Calcutta, 1841.
Sermons about tefillin and other sermons, eulogies and letters. Many lists of accounts of the distribution [in Tiberias] in the 1880s. Detailed journal by the writer of his travels as an emissary to the western cities in the 1880s. List of books and manuscripts that he took with him on his journey and other interesting lists. Apparently, the writer was one of the Tiberias scholars and he mentions his father and grandfather who also were Torah scholars in Tiberias. From the lists, it is apparent that he had contact with the Aleppo and Damascus communities.
2 volumes, varied size and condition. Some of the sections in Volume 1 are damaged.
Opening price: $300
