A varied collection of handwritten leaves and leaf remnants, printed leaves with glosses and title pages with signatures.
· Manuscript remnants from Oriental countries (Turkey, Syria, Iraq, North Africa). Some are particularly early. Including fragments in Ladino and Judeo-Arabic. Rabbis' letters, Kabbalistic sections and segulot, piyyutim, two leaves of commentary on Tractate Avot by Rabbi Yitzchak ben R' Shlomo of Toledo, etc. · Parts of an unidentified work (homiletics on the Torah?) removed from the "binding geniza". · Handwritten pamphlet, homiletics on tefillin. [Morocco, c. 1870]. · Pamphlet from Mishne Torah L'HaRambam, Sefer HaMada [Venice, 1574], with Oriental signatures and glosses. · Collection of title pages, with signatures by Oriental rabbis (Rabbi Yedidya Shlomo Yisrael, Rabbi Chaim David Amar, Rabbi Avraham Krispin, Rabbi Avraham Potremoli, etc.). · Title pages and leaves with signature or glosses in Ashkenazi writing.
More than 100 items. Varied size and condition.

Torah commentary, by Rabbi Moshe ben Rabbi Nachman Girondi – the Ramban. [Venice, 1545. Printed by Marco Antonio Justinian].
Hundreds of glosses and various marks in Ashkenazi handwriting [Italian?, from the time of printing , c. 16th century]. Most of the glosses are notes of sources, some explanatory comments. In a gloss on Leaf 33/1, the writer notes a different version in a manuscript he possesses.
More signatures in oriental handwriting: "C. Moshe Shvut-HaLevi" [a Aleppo Torah scholar from the 18th and 19th centuries], “Last redeemer David Chazak”, “David Ye’uda Chazak “.
Incomplete copy: 3-135, 140-141, 144-145 leaves. (Originally, 156, [1] leaves). Approximately 30 cm. Fair condition, wear and fungus damages. Several leaves have damages and tears. Detached leaves, unbound.

Hilchot Rav Alfas, with Rashi, Rabbeinu Nissim, Nimukei Yosef and Shiltei Giborim. Bava Batra, Sanhedrin, Makot, Shevuot and Avodah Zara. [Sabionetta, 1555. Printed by Tuvia Puah. First edition of Shiltei Giborim].
Hundreds of glosses in Italian handwriting from the time of printing [second half of 16th century]. At that time, the Inquisitors decreed the burning of Holy Books in Italy, beginning with the burning of the Talmud in Rome on Rosh Hashana, 1553. During that period, study and printing of the Talmud was prohibited, however the books of the Rif were permitted for study. therefore, these books were the primary source of learning by Italian scholars at that time and were used as a springboard for reconstructing the words of the Talmudic sages according to the books written by the Rishonim and other sources. the first book written on the Rif at that time was Shiltei HaGiborim. this is the first edition of that book, although many books authored by Italian Torah scholars at that time were written on the leaves of the Rif. this manuscript is one of those compositions. (For more information on the decree of Holy Books in Italy, see: Introduction to Chiddushei Rabbi Moshe Kazis, Mechon Yerushalayim, 1988; E. Ya’ari, Burning of the Talmud in Italy; M. Benayahu, the Hebrew Printing in Cremona; etc).
(Incomplete copy): Leaves 161-395, (originally, volume of Seder Nezikin: 396; 54 leaves). 37 cm. Good-fair condition, stains and wear, margin trimmings heavily damaged many notes (many glosses still remained complete). Unbound.

Hatzivi Lach Tziyunim, on Talmudic sayings and Midrashim. Ma'ase Moshe by Rabbi Moshe HaLevi. Belgrade, [1874].
On the title page is a signature "HaZvi Chaim Tzorfati". On the second leaf is a handwritten inscription: "I borrowed it from my friend R' Rabino Tzorfati". At the end of the inscription is an ink stamp of the author of Sde Chemed: "Chaim Chizkiyahu Medini called C.C.M.". Another inscription from the person who bought the book from Rabbi Rabino Tzorfati in 1938. On Leaf 60/a is a gloss [approximately 30 words] in the handwriting of the author of Sde Chemed.
Rabbi Chaim Chizkiyahu Medini, (1833-1905), was born in Jerusalem, served in the rabbinate of Constantinople, Karasubazar (in the Crimean peninsula) and in Hebron. He was celebrated for his diligence and proficiency in Torah and kabbalah. He corresponded with Jewish Torah leaders throughout the world. An exceptional prodigy, he wrote the comprehensive Torah encyclopedic work, the 18 volumes of Sde Chemed and other books as well. Almost no books from his huge library, stored in the Misgav LaDach Hospital in the Old City of Jerusalem, survived the 1948 fire which erupted in the hospital.
Chacham Rabbi Rabino Tzorfati, mentioned in the Sde Chemed (page 662), "I have requested my friend Rabbi Rabino Tzorfati to search there, he…did not find, and he showed me what he wrote…".
[4], 97, [1 empty], [1], 102-154 leaves. 19 cm. Fair condition, worming and stains. Contemporary binding, damaged.