Manuscript, liturgical poems for Simchat Torah and Seder Hakafot and prayers. [Cochin], [19th century?].
Impressed writing on the binding: "Rabbi S.E."
3-72 written leaves. (leaves1-2 are blank). 9.8 cm. Fine writing in blue ink on drawn paper. Good condition, slight tears. Gilded leaves cutting. Vorsatz of original marble paper. Fine leather binding with gold impressions.

1. The book of Yesha'ayahu translated into Italian with commentaries in Hebrew, by Shadal [Shmuel David Luzzatto]. Prague, 1842.
Early experimental printing booklet with translation into Italian and commentaries on the book of Yesha'ayahu, printed in seven parts in Padua during the years 1855-1867. The booklet opens with a dedication in Shmuel David Luzzatto's handwriting, to his disciple. Many notes and commentaries in Shadal's handwriting appear in the booklet. 32 pages, 22 cm.
2. Manuscript – Shadal's translation of the book of Yesha'ayahu and commentaries by one of his disciples. Hebrew and Italian handwriting in two columns, pp. 303-33 (continues exactly where the printed booklet ends). The writer signs in the end of the manuscript. Shadal's commentaries in this manuscript were studied and found almost identical to the printed edition. Slight changes and differences between the handwritten Italian translation and the printed one.
Bound together in half-parchment fine binding. In front is bound a portrait of the writer printed in Padua in 1844.
Rabbi Shmuel David Luzzatto (1800-1865) linguist, poet and bible commentator. Translator of the Siddur into Italian. Rosh Beit Midrash Le-Rabanim in Padua, Italy. Published Italian translations of the books of Iyov and Yesha'ayahu, the Torah and Haftarot. Added Hebrew commentaries and introductions to books and published many historical and Jewish philosophy researches.

Manuscript, founding of a synagogue in Horochow [Horochow province of Tiberia, Crimea].1786.
A long and poetic document 5 pages, about the synagogue and the donors. 3 pages with lists and signatures of "nummer" [seat number] buyers.
At this period Jews arrived from Lithuania and Russia to settle in the Crimea area. The old Jewish communities were Crimean Jews, one of whom signed the document [in writing similar to oriental writing] and communities of Kara'im that lived separately from the Jewish communities.
Interesting historical document.
6 leaves, 8 written pages. 33 cm. Quality paper, very good condition.

Signed diary of protocols, of the free-loan fund of Ichud Hamelamdim, Jerusalem, 1924-1932.
Ichud Hamelamdim of the teachers in the Talmud Torahs and Yeshivot for younger boys in Jerusalem. Signed are Rabbi Avraham Chaim Hakalman, Rabbi Leib Ruchamkin [father-in-law of Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Auerbach], Rabbi Yechiel Grossberg and more. 77 protocols of meetings of the free-loan fund, for the porpose of approving requests of the teachers for loans for housing, marriage and more. [In Protocol 57 from 1930, they approved a loan for Rabbi Aryeh Levin, for the marriage of his daughter to Rabbi Elyashiv].
88 written pages, 2 cm. Good-fair condition, stains, wear on the first and last leaves. No binding.