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Auction 57 - Judaica - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters, Ceremonial Art
September 12, 2017
Opening: $400
Sold for: $875
Including buyer's premium
Collection of leaf fragments from ancient manuscripts removed from a "bindings' geniza"
* Manuscript leaf containing a paragraph from the letter of R. Meir Abulafia (Haramah) regarding the Rambam's opinion on the resuscitation of the dead (printed in his book of novellae - Yad Ramah, Sanhedrin Perek Chelek).[Sephardic script, 14th-15th century].
* Manuscript leaf from a philosophical work. [Unidentified. Sephardic semi-cursive script, 14th-15th century?]
* Manuscrip leaf from a philosophical work [about Kohelet? Unidentified composition. Sephardic semi-cursive script, 14th/15th century?].
* Hebrew medical manuscript. [Italian Hebrew script, 14th-15th century]. The margins contain long glosses in a different, contemporary handwriting. 6 leaf fragments.
* Two leaves from different Hebrew medical manuscripts. [Semi-cursive Sephardic script, by different writers. 14th-15th century?].
10 page fragments. Size and condition vary.
* Manuscript leaf containing a paragraph from the letter of R. Meir Abulafia (Haramah) regarding the Rambam's opinion on the resuscitation of the dead (printed in his book of novellae - Yad Ramah, Sanhedrin Perek Chelek).[Sephardic script, 14th-15th century].
* Manuscript leaf from a philosophical work. [Unidentified. Sephardic semi-cursive script, 14th-15th century?]
* Manuscrip leaf from a philosophical work [about Kohelet? Unidentified composition. Sephardic semi-cursive script, 14th/15th century?].
* Hebrew medical manuscript. [Italian Hebrew script, 14th-15th century]. The margins contain long glosses in a different, contemporary handwriting. 6 leaf fragments.
* Two leaves from different Hebrew medical manuscripts. [Semi-cursive Sephardic script, by different writers. 14th-15th century?].
10 page fragments. Size and condition vary.
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Manuscripts from Before the Printing Era
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Auction 57 - Judaica - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters, Ceremonial Art
September 12, 2017
Opening: $1,500
Unsold
Manuscript fragments on vellum, removed from a "bindings' geniza" - Torah with Targum Onkelos. [Germanic countries, ca. 14th/15th century].
Square Ashkenazic script, vowelized. The Torah text is in the center of the page, with a parallel column - Targum Onkelos in smaller script. Sections from Sefer Bereshit and Sefer Shemot.
10 leaf fragments. Size and condition vary. Extensive damage due to the binding process.
Square Ashkenazic script, vowelized. The Torah text is in the center of the page, with a parallel column - Targum Onkelos in smaller script. Sections from Sefer Bereshit and Sefer Shemot.
10 leaf fragments. Size and condition vary. Extensive damage due to the binding process.
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Manuscripts from Before the Printing Era
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Auction 57 - Judaica - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters, Ceremonial Art
September 12, 2017
Opening: $500
Sold for: $625
Including buyer's premium
Collection of ancient manuscript fragments removed from a "bindings' geniza" - commentary of R. David Kimchi, the Radak, on Sefer Yirmiyahu. [Spain? 15th century].
Sepahrdic semi-cursive script. Fragments from various chapters.
27 leaf fragments. Various sizes and conditions due to the binding process. Repairs with adhesive tape. New binding.
Provenance: Israel Mehlman collection.
Sepahrdic semi-cursive script. Fragments from various chapters.
27 leaf fragments. Various sizes and conditions due to the binding process. Repairs with adhesive tape. New binding.
Provenance: Israel Mehlman collection.
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Manuscripts from Before the Printing Era
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Auction 57 - Judaica - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters, Ceremonial Art
September 12, 2017
Opening: $500
Unsold
Manuscript fragments removed from a "bindings' geniza" - commentary of the Radak (R. David Kimchi), to the book of Ezekiel (chapters 11-17). Semi-cursive Sephardic script. [Spain or a Spanish community elsewhere, ca. 15th/16th century].
9 leaf fragments. Size and condition vary; extensive damage due to the binding process.
9 leaf fragments. Size and condition vary; extensive damage due to the binding process.
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Manuscripts from Before the Printing Era
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Auction 57 - Judaica - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters, Ceremonial Art
September 12, 2017
Opening: $500
Sold for: $625
Including buyer's premium
Four manuscript fragments that were taken from a "bindings' geniza". Commentary of Rashi on the Torah, Sefer Devarim. [ca. 15th/16th century].
Handsome semi-cursive Sephardic script, with large headings. Includes paragraphs from Parashiot Shoftim, Ki Tetze, Nitzavim, Vayelech (Devarim 18:20 - 21:11; 28:49 - 31:2). There are several differences between this manuscript and contemporary printed editions.
Several glosses in the margins in Sephardic handwriting from a later period.
[4] leaves. Approximately 28 cm. Condition varies due to the damage inflicted by binding. Tears with damage to text. Professionally repaired and rebound in a handsome binding.
Handsome semi-cursive Sephardic script, with large headings. Includes paragraphs from Parashiot Shoftim, Ki Tetze, Nitzavim, Vayelech (Devarim 18:20 - 21:11; 28:49 - 31:2). There are several differences between this manuscript and contemporary printed editions.
Several glosses in the margins in Sephardic handwriting from a later period.
[4] leaves. Approximately 28 cm. Condition varies due to the damage inflicted by binding. Tears with damage to text. Professionally repaired and rebound in a handsome binding.
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Manuscripts from Before the Printing Era
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Auction 57 - Judaica - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters, Ceremonial Art
September 12, 2017
Opening: $400
Sold for: $625
Including buyer's premium
Fragment of ancient parchment manuscripts removed from a "bindings' geniza".
* Parchment leaf, Rashi commentary on the Torah [Italian Ashkenazi script]. Contains the end of Bereshit and the beginning of Shemot.
* Five fragments of a parchment manuscript, Mishneh Torah by the Rambam [Sephardi script]. Sections of Shoftim, Hilchot Melachim and Hilchot Evel.
6 parchment fragments. Varying size and damages due to the binding process.
* Parchment leaf, Rashi commentary on the Torah [Italian Ashkenazi script]. Contains the end of Bereshit and the beginning of Shemot.
* Five fragments of a parchment manuscript, Mishneh Torah by the Rambam [Sephardi script]. Sections of Shoftim, Hilchot Melachim and Hilchot Evel.
6 parchment fragments. Varying size and damages due to the binding process.
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Manuscripts from Before the Printing Era
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Auction 57 - Judaica - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters, Ceremonial Art
September 12, 2017
Opening: $400
Sold for: $813
Including buyer's premium
Collection of ancient manuscript fragments removed from a "bindings' geniza". [Sephardi script, Spain?, ca. 14th/15th century].
The fragments are parts of two compositions: * Perush HaAgadot by the Rashba, section of the composition on Tractate Berachot (9 leaf fragments). * Piskei HaRosh on Tractate Ketubot (2 leaves and a section of another large leaf).
We have compared samples of the text of these fragments with the printed renditions and have found several variations.
12 leaf fragments. Varying size and damages due to the binding process. Stains, tears and shaved margins, affecting text.
The fragments are parts of two compositions: * Perush HaAgadot by the Rashba, section of the composition on Tractate Berachot (9 leaf fragments). * Piskei HaRosh on Tractate Ketubot (2 leaves and a section of another large leaf).
We have compared samples of the text of these fragments with the printed renditions and have found several variations.
12 leaf fragments. Varying size and damages due to the binding process. Stains, tears and shaved margins, affecting text.
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Manuscripts from Before the Printing Era
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![Manuscript, Perush HaAgadot by the Rashba. [Sephardi script, by two writers. ca. 16th century].
Rashba's commentary to Agado](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale57-public/236.jpg "Manuscript, Perush HaAgadot by the Rashba - 16th Century")
Auction 57 - Judaica - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters, Ceremonial Art
September 12, 2017
Opening: $800
Sold for: $1,500
Including buyer's premium
Manuscript, Perush HaAgadot by the Rashba. [Sephardi script, by two writers. ca. 16th century].
Rashba's commentary to Agadot on the Tractates Berachot, Ta'anit and Megillah (Berachot - from the beginning until the end of page 32/b, and from the beginning of the chapter Ketzad Mevarchin, page 35/b until the end of the tractate. Ta'anit - the commentary is complete. Megillah - only the beginning).
Many variations exist in comparison to the Mossad HaRav Kook edition. Stamps of "Beit HaMidrash Menachem Zion Churvat Rabbi Yehuda HaChassid Jerusalem". Ownership inscription on flyleaf: "... Eliezer Inbito".
[16] (consecutive) leaves, lacking at the end. 27 cm. Good condition. Stains. New binding.
Rashba's commentary to Agadot on the Tractates Berachot, Ta'anit and Megillah (Berachot - from the beginning until the end of page 32/b, and from the beginning of the chapter Ketzad Mevarchin, page 35/b until the end of the tractate. Ta'anit - the commentary is complete. Megillah - only the beginning).
Many variations exist in comparison to the Mossad HaRav Kook edition. Stamps of "Beit HaMidrash Menachem Zion Churvat Rabbi Yehuda HaChassid Jerusalem". Ownership inscription on flyleaf: "... Eliezer Inbito".
[16] (consecutive) leaves, lacking at the end. 27 cm. Good condition. Stains. New binding.
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Manuscripts from Before the Printing Era
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Auction 57 - Judaica - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters, Ceremonial Art
September 12, 2017
Opening: $1,000
Unsold
Collection of ancient shtarot and letters removed from a "bindings' geniza", most of them in Ladino:
* Shtar of debt by "The wealthy R. Ya'akov di Leon" from 1574. Signed by "Chanina Ibn Chananya" and "Yitzchak - o".
* Letter by R. "Shlomo Ibn Mayor" [Head of the yeshiva of the Ba'alei Teshuvot community, signed with the Maharchash], sent to "R. Ya'akov Albachari in Constantinople" [mentioned in the Maharshadam (R. Shmuel di Medina) responsa]. Salonika, 1610?.
* Letter by the wealthy Chaim Karov to Don Shlomo Abarbanel. Larisa (Greece), 1711.
* Letter by the sage R. Shlomo Motel, to the wealthy Moshe Abarbanel of Salonika. [Izmir?, 17th century]
* Letter by R. Yehoshua Tzintzin to the wealthy Avraham Ashi'o and to Shlomo Abarbanel. (Constantinople or Salonika?], 1720.
* Letter from the community of "Amasya" (Turkey), 1717. Unidentified signatories.
Six letters. Varying size and damages due to the binding process. Most of the letters are complete. Dark stains, wear and tears affecting text.
* Shtar of debt by "The wealthy R. Ya'akov di Leon" from 1574. Signed by "Chanina Ibn Chananya" and "Yitzchak - o".
* Letter by R. "Shlomo Ibn Mayor" [Head of the yeshiva of the Ba'alei Teshuvot community, signed with the Maharchash], sent to "R. Ya'akov Albachari in Constantinople" [mentioned in the Maharshadam (R. Shmuel di Medina) responsa]. Salonika, 1610?.
* Letter by the wealthy Chaim Karov to Don Shlomo Abarbanel. Larisa (Greece), 1711.
* Letter by the sage R. Shlomo Motel, to the wealthy Moshe Abarbanel of Salonika. [Izmir?, 17th century]
* Letter by R. Yehoshua Tzintzin to the wealthy Avraham Ashi'o and to Shlomo Abarbanel. (Constantinople or Salonika?], 1720.
* Letter from the community of "Amasya" (Turkey), 1717. Unidentified signatories.
Six letters. Varying size and damages due to the binding process. Most of the letters are complete. Dark stains, wear and tears affecting text.
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Manuscripts and Letters - Eastern Jewry
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Auction 57 - Judaica - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters, Ceremonial Art
September 12, 2017
Opening: $400
Sold for: $500
Including buyer's premium
Collection of manuscript fragments removed from a "bindings' geniza". [Aleppo, Mosul and Baghdad, late 18th - early 19th centuries].
Includes four letters and a segment from an additional letter sent to "Yitzchak Daniel Jana [?]" of Baghdad. All the letters are written in Judeo-Arabic, with Hebrew introductions. One of the letters contains the name of the addressee with the inscription: "from Aleppo… to the great city of Bavel…"; this letter contains a fragmented signature "the young Ch—Atia—Se"t (Sephardi tahor)". It is possible that the author was R. Chaim Attia, one of Aleppo's great Torah scholars in the 18th century (passed away 1795). He corresponded with Maharam Galante and the Chida, who referred to him as "the lion of Torah scholarship", and wrote to him, "My entire body is trembling with the force of your Torah thoughts". The back of one letter states that it was sent from Al-Mosul (Mosul, Iraq) to Baghdad. Another letter is signed by "Ezra David [?] Binyamin". Two letters contain the date: 1808 and 1809. Two further documents are written in Arabic, and several fragments contain financial accounts.
Over 20 leaves and leaf fragments. Size and condition vary. Various defects due to the binding process.
Includes four letters and a segment from an additional letter sent to "Yitzchak Daniel Jana [?]" of Baghdad. All the letters are written in Judeo-Arabic, with Hebrew introductions. One of the letters contains the name of the addressee with the inscription: "from Aleppo… to the great city of Bavel…"; this letter contains a fragmented signature "the young Ch—Atia—Se"t (Sephardi tahor)". It is possible that the author was R. Chaim Attia, one of Aleppo's great Torah scholars in the 18th century (passed away 1795). He corresponded with Maharam Galante and the Chida, who referred to him as "the lion of Torah scholarship", and wrote to him, "My entire body is trembling with the force of your Torah thoughts". The back of one letter states that it was sent from Al-Mosul (Mosul, Iraq) to Baghdad. Another letter is signed by "Ezra David [?] Binyamin". Two letters contain the date: 1808 and 1809. Two further documents are written in Arabic, and several fragments contain financial accounts.
Over 20 leaves and leaf fragments. Size and condition vary. Various defects due to the binding process.
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Manuscripts and Letters - Eastern Jewry
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![Manuscript, Chut HaMeshulash, novellae and homilies on the Torah, by R. Yehuda Diwan. [18th century].
Oriental script, sever](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale57-public/239.jpg "Manuscript - Chut HaMeshulash, by Rabbi Yehuda Diwan - 18th Century")
Auction 57 - Judaica - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters, Ceremonial Art
September 12, 2017
Opening: $500
Sold for: $1,125
Including buyer's premium
Manuscript, Chut HaMeshulash, novellae and homilies on the Torah, by R. Yehuda Diwan. [18th century].
Oriental script, several handwritings, with a few corrections and erasures. This composition is from Parshat Behar-BeChukotai until the end of Devarim.
Page [6a] bears an ownership inscription, written between the lines: "This book belongs to the sage R. Ya'akov, descendant of R. Avraham Pinto". On page [22a] is a signature: "Avraham Pinto".
R. Yehuda Diwan (died 1752), was a Safed and Jerusalem sage, a member of the Beit Din of the Admat Kodesh. He was an emissary on behalf of the Hebron community (at the beginning of Parshat Shelach he writes: "I have delivered this sermon in the city of Hamden as an emissary of Hebron in 1713"). His book Chut HaMeshulash was printed in Constantinople in 1739.
[26] leaves. Approximately 31 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains and wear. Tears and worming to several leaves. New binding.
Oriental script, several handwritings, with a few corrections and erasures. This composition is from Parshat Behar-BeChukotai until the end of Devarim.
Page [6a] bears an ownership inscription, written between the lines: "This book belongs to the sage R. Ya'akov, descendant of R. Avraham Pinto". On page [22a] is a signature: "Avraham Pinto".
R. Yehuda Diwan (died 1752), was a Safed and Jerusalem sage, a member of the Beit Din of the Admat Kodesh. He was an emissary on behalf of the Hebron community (at the beginning of Parshat Shelach he writes: "I have delivered this sermon in the city of Hamden as an emissary of Hebron in 1713"). His book Chut HaMeshulash was printed in Constantinople in 1739.
[26] leaves. Approximately 31 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains and wear. Tears and worming to several leaves. New binding.
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Manuscripts and Letters - Eastern Jewry
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![Manuscript, machzor for Pesach according to the minhag of Corfu. [Corfu, 18th century?].
Complete manuscript on thick high q](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale57-public/240_1.jpg "Manuscript - Machzor for Pesach (Passover) According to the Minhag of")
![Manuscript, machzor for Pesach according to the minhag of Corfu. [Corfu, 18th century?].
Complete manuscript on thick high q](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale57-public/240_2.jpg "Manuscript - Machzor for Pesach (Passover) According to the Minhag of")
Auction 57 - Judaica - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters, Ceremonial Art
September 12, 2017
Opening: $3,000
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Manuscript, machzor for Pesach according to the minhag of Corfu. [Corfu, 18th century?].
Complete manuscript on thick high quality paper. Square vowelized script. Instructions in semi-cursive Sephardic-Italian script. Decorations in several places; crowns on several letters.
The Corfu machzor preserves an ancient and unique rite that was never printed and exists only in manuscript form. This rite includes the ancient Romaniote, Greek and Byzantine rites, together with the rite of Spanish refugees who were absorbed into those communities.
The machzor begins with the prayer services for Shabbat Hagadol - the Shabbat preceding Passover, including piyyutim and an introduction to the services. This is followed by the traditional prayers for the first and second days of Passover, for Chol Hamo'ed and for the final two days of Passover, including piyyutim unique to this machzor. Some of the piyyutim include the names of the authors ("by R. Gavriel", "by R. Moshe ben Shabbtai Yichye, may his light shine", "by R. Binyamin ben R. Shmuel Chazak" and others). The machzor includes a long and ancient version of "Baruch She'amar".
108 leaves (additional 6 blank leaves at the end). 20.5 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains. Worming with slight damage to text. Two detached leaves. Original binding, damaged.
Complete manuscript on thick high quality paper. Square vowelized script. Instructions in semi-cursive Sephardic-Italian script. Decorations in several places; crowns on several letters.
The Corfu machzor preserves an ancient and unique rite that was never printed and exists only in manuscript form. This rite includes the ancient Romaniote, Greek and Byzantine rites, together with the rite of Spanish refugees who were absorbed into those communities.
The machzor begins with the prayer services for Shabbat Hagadol - the Shabbat preceding Passover, including piyyutim and an introduction to the services. This is followed by the traditional prayers for the first and second days of Passover, for Chol Hamo'ed and for the final two days of Passover, including piyyutim unique to this machzor. Some of the piyyutim include the names of the authors ("by R. Gavriel", "by R. Moshe ben Shabbtai Yichye, may his light shine", "by R. Binyamin ben R. Shmuel Chazak" and others). The machzor includes a long and ancient version of "Baruch She'amar".
108 leaves (additional 6 blank leaves at the end). 20.5 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains. Worming with slight damage to text. Two detached leaves. Original binding, damaged.
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Manuscripts and Letters - Eastern Jewry
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