Auction 37 - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters
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Auction 37 - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters
April 2, 2014
Opening: $400
Sold for: $500
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Three manuscripts in Jewish-Persian. [Persia, end of 19th century].
• Manuscript, MiChlal Yofi Shel Torah Nevi'im Ketuvim, commentaries and explanations on the Bible. The author signed his name in a colophon: "Raphael Melamed Cohen ben Rabbi Netanel Katz… 1900".
• Manuscript, Judeo-Arabic commentary on the six Sidrei Mishna, "Explained by…Shlomo…". The copier: "Raphael Melamed ben Rabbi Netanel HaCohen'. 1900.
• Manuscript, Pitron Chalomot. Kabalistic matters, reading faces and palms. Colophon: "Monday, 28th of Iyar… 1896". Hebrew and Jewish-Persian.
Three volumes, approximately 17 cm. Overall good-fair condition. New bindings.
• Manuscript, MiChlal Yofi Shel Torah Nevi'im Ketuvim, commentaries and explanations on the Bible. The author signed his name in a colophon: "Raphael Melamed Cohen ben Rabbi Netanel Katz… 1900".
• Manuscript, Judeo-Arabic commentary on the six Sidrei Mishna, "Explained by…Shlomo…". The copier: "Raphael Melamed ben Rabbi Netanel HaCohen'. 1900.
• Manuscript, Pitron Chalomot. Kabalistic matters, reading faces and palms. Colophon: "Monday, 28th of Iyar… 1896". Hebrew and Jewish-Persian.
Three volumes, approximately 17 cm. Overall good-fair condition. New bindings.
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Auction 37 - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters
April 2, 2014
Opening: $300
Sold for: $625
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Collection of manuscripts and manuscript leaves. Persia, Morocco and Oriental countries, most from the 19th century.
For a complete list, see Hebrew description.
Approximately 10 items, varied size and condition, fair to fair-poor.
For a complete list, see Hebrew description.
Approximately 10 items, varied size and condition, fair to fair-poor.
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Auction 37 - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters
April 2, 2014
Opening: $3,000
Sold for: $3,750
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Manuscript – "Calendar for 142 years, from 1840-1981, by Moshe ben Ya'akov, [Germany], 1841.
Artistic title page, made with the technique of cutting and gluing illustrated adornments. Ashkenazi writing. Written on a notebook with a handsome binding and illustrated forsatz leaves.
The calendar has charts for calculating 142 years (until 1981), arrangement for 14 calendars for determining the years, an intensive composition on astronomy, "The path of the seven planets each week", chronicles (list of historical dates), Luach HaTamid – for the order of the weekly Torah portions (illustrated adornment, cut and glued).
[4], 100, [7] pages. 16 cm. Good condition. Stains, few moth marks. Ownership inscriptions and stamps. Damaged binding.
Artistic title page, made with the technique of cutting and gluing illustrated adornments. Ashkenazi writing. Written on a notebook with a handsome binding and illustrated forsatz leaves.
The calendar has charts for calculating 142 years (until 1981), arrangement for 14 calendars for determining the years, an intensive composition on astronomy, "The path of the seven planets each week", chronicles (list of historical dates), Luach HaTamid – for the order of the weekly Torah portions (illustrated adornment, cut and glued).
[4], 100, [7] pages. 16 cm. Good condition. Stains, few moth marks. Ownership inscriptions and stamps. Damaged binding.
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Auction 37 - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters
April 2, 2014
Opening: $400
Sold for: $1,125
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Manuscript, articles and ideas on Midrashim, science and philosophy and various topics. [Russia-Poland, 19th century].
Written by an unidentified author. The manuscript has studies and articles, original ideas and commentaries on Midrashim according to philosophical wisdom, Jewish science and nature with chronicles on Divrei HaYamim and the history of the Jews in Russia, ["A study of the time that the Jews came from the countries in which they were dispersed and settled in Russia…"] until the end of the Crimean War and the Treaty of Paris in 1856, and compilations from various sources.
[134] written pages. 20 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains, tears and wear. Worn paper binding.
Written by an unidentified author. The manuscript has studies and articles, original ideas and commentaries on Midrashim according to philosophical wisdom, Jewish science and nature with chronicles on Divrei HaYamim and the history of the Jews in Russia, ["A study of the time that the Jews came from the countries in which they were dispersed and settled in Russia…"] until the end of the Crimean War and the Treaty of Paris in 1856, and compilations from various sources.
[134] written pages. 20 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains, tears and wear. Worn paper binding.
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Auction 37 - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters
April 2, 2014
Opening: $250
Sold for: $400
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Halachic ruling handwritten and signed by Rabbi Ya'akov Ebn Malka. Tétouan (Morocco), [1758].
Concerning the Ketubah of a widow, according to the custom of the communities expelled from Castelia.
Rabbi Ya'akov Ebn Malka (died in 1771, Malkei Rabanan p. 64), disciple of Rabbi Yehuda ben Atar. One of the foremost Moroccan Torah scholars, served as Rabbi of Fes and later as Av Beit Din of Tétouan. Wrote the Ner Ma'aravi responsa. See attached material.
One leaf, written on both sides. 20 cm. Slightly cutoff on margins, with damage to text. Good-fair condition. Stains, folding marks and tears.
Concerning the Ketubah of a widow, according to the custom of the communities expelled from Castelia.
Rabbi Ya'akov Ebn Malka (died in 1771, Malkei Rabanan p. 64), disciple of Rabbi Yehuda ben Atar. One of the foremost Moroccan Torah scholars, served as Rabbi of Fes and later as Av Beit Din of Tétouan. Wrote the Ner Ma'aravi responsa. See attached material.
One leaf, written on both sides. 20 cm. Slightly cutoff on margins, with damage to text. Good-fair condition. Stains, folding marks and tears.
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Moroccan Jewry – Manuscripts and Letters
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Auction 37 - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters
April 2, 2014
Opening: $3,500
Sold for: $8,750
Including buyer's premium
Large collection of manuscripts, homiletics and piyutim. Oriental countries [Yemen, Morocco, Turkey, Persia etc.].
For a complete list, see Hebrew description.
19 manuscripts, varied size and condition. Some are bound.
Opening price: $3500
For a complete list, see Hebrew description.
19 manuscripts, varied size and condition. Some are bound.
Opening price: $3500
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Moroccan Jewry – Manuscripts and Letters
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Auction 37 - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters
April 2, 2014
Opening: $500
Sold for: $625
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Manuscript of Piyutim in Hebrew and Jewish Mugrabi Arabic, various accounts concerning matters of the courts and community taxes. Morocco, c. 1865.
On the leather binding is an impressed adornment, "Yosef ben Rabbi Moshe Abuhatzira". In the lists of accounts and courts are famous last names of families which belonged to the Jewish Moroccan community: Abucatzira, Pinto, Danino, Sudri, Chasin, Simchon, Edrei, Asulin, Ebn Chayun.
14 leaves. 16.5 cm. Fair condition, stains wear and tears. Elaborate worn leather binding. Binding filled with leaf parts from an ancient Venice Talmud (sections from Mordechai on Tractate Bava Batra).
On the leather binding is an impressed adornment, "Yosef ben Rabbi Moshe Abuhatzira". In the lists of accounts and courts are famous last names of families which belonged to the Jewish Moroccan community: Abucatzira, Pinto, Danino, Sudri, Chasin, Simchon, Edrei, Asulin, Ebn Chayun.
14 leaves. 16.5 cm. Fair condition, stains wear and tears. Elaborate worn leather binding. Binding filled with leaf parts from an ancient Venice Talmud (sections from Mordechai on Tractate Bava Batra).
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Moroccan Jewry – Manuscripts and Letters
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Auction 37 - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters
April 2, 2014
Opening: $350
Sold for: $575
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Collection of manuscripts. [Morocco and Oriental countries, c. 19th century]. Hebrew and Judeo-Arabic.
•Compilation of various piyutim. (For a complete list, see Hebrew description.)
Four manuscripts, varied size and condition (good-poor). Lacking leaves and other damages.
•Compilation of various piyutim. (For a complete list, see Hebrew description.)
Four manuscripts, varied size and condition (good-poor). Lacking leaves and other damages.
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Moroccan Jewry – Manuscripts and Letters
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Auction 37 - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters
April 2, 2014
Opening: $300
Sold for: $525
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Manuscript, bakashot and piyutim, for Shabbat and other occasions. [Morocco, 19th century].
Primarily composed of Shabbat Bakashot , followed by "Compiled Piyutim". On the last leaf is a decorated Oriental signature [Yitzchak Toledano?].
218 pages (lacking several leaves at the middle and at the end). High-quality paper, lined. 10 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains, minor wear. New binding.
Primarily composed of Shabbat Bakashot , followed by "Compiled Piyutim". On the last leaf is a decorated Oriental signature [Yitzchak Toledano?].
218 pages (lacking several leaves at the middle and at the end). High-quality paper, lined. 10 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains, minor wear. New binding.
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Moroccan Jewry – Manuscripts and Letters
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Auction 37 - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters
April 2, 2014
Opening: $300
Sold for: $1,500
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• 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
• 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
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Moroccan Jewry – Manuscripts and Letters
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Auction 37 - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters
April 2, 2014
Opening: $300
Sold for: $375
Including buyer's premium
Large collection of leaves and notes, with Torah novellae, on the Talmud and Halacha, rulings, homiletics and commentaries, sections of letters and various lists. North Africa [Morocco?, Mid-19th century till beginning of 20th century].
More than 60 leaves, varied size and condition.
More than 60 leaves, varied size and condition.
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Moroccan Jewry – Manuscripts and Letters
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Auction 37 - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters
April 2, 2014
Opening: $250
Sold for: $750
Including buyer's premium
• Handwritten booklet, Azharot for the Laws of Shechita, a didactic halachic poem by Rabbi Masud ben Shabbat, apparently in his handwriting. At the end of the booklet is his stamp "Masud ebn Yitzchak Shabbat from the city of Sus" – Rabbi Masud ben Shabbat was a Torah scholar in Casablanca and in Tardane.
• Manuscript, thoughts and homiletics on the Torah weekly portions and for other occasions [some were compiled from various books], by Rabbi Shlomo Asaraf. Ouled Berhil (Morocco), [c. 1828]. Includes lists of deaths from a later time.
• Manuscript, Chana and her Seven Sons [in Jewish-Arabic]; lamentations for Tisha B'Av and for mourning the dead [some in Jewish-Arabic], [North Africa; Morocco?].
Varied size and condition.
• Manuscript, thoughts and homiletics on the Torah weekly portions and for other occasions [some were compiled from various books], by Rabbi Shlomo Asaraf. Ouled Berhil (Morocco), [c. 1828]. Includes lists of deaths from a later time.
• Manuscript, Chana and her Seven Sons [in Jewish-Arabic]; lamentations for Tisha B'Av and for mourning the dead [some in Jewish-Arabic], [North Africa; Morocco?].
Varied size and condition.
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Moroccan Jewry – Manuscripts and Letters
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