Lot 363
Diverse Collection of Manuscripts, Handwritten and Printed Leaves, Fragments of Ancient Printings
Diverse collection of manuscripts, and fragments of manuscripts and printed matter.
The collection is composed of:
Various manuscripts in Oriental writing [Oriental countries, most are from Baghdad and India]: · Manuscript, songs for Hakafot and for Simchat Torah. · Manuscript, Haftarah of Tisha B'Av, with Serach [Judeo-Arabic transaction]. · Manuscript, Passover Haggadah, with Serach [Judeo-Arabic translation]. · Manuscript, Shabbat songs with Birkat HaMazon. · Manuscript, songs for various occasions [Shabbat HaGadol, Chanuka, etc.]. · Manuscript, refrains for those who receive an aliya on Simchat Torah. · Manuscript, poem for Purim [damaged and lacking]. On the first leaf is a dedication by the writer: "Gift for the dear…wife of the influential Ezra Meir son of R. Avraham Shalom Saliman Shimon in the city of Singapore". · Several handwritten leaves, commentary on the Book of Tehillim (Chapters 17-18). · More manuscript or sections of manuscripts.
· Binding of a book, with manuscript fragments, customs of shechita and terefot according to the Marrakesh tradition (Sassoon manuscript, Ohel David, p. 753), and more unidentified fragments.
· [7] leaves from the Book of Kohelet with Rashi commentary. Unidentified printing press.
· Various printed leaves, some fragments of ancient printed leaves removed from the "Binding Geniza", a number of proclamations related to the Babylonian community in Jerusalem, and more.
Approximately 50 items. Size and condition vary.
Provenance: Sassoon family collection.
