Manuscript, Zivchei Shelamim, by R. Yehuda Diwan. [Turkey?, 1825].
Oriental script. Colorful, illustrated title page. Colorful ornament at the end of the foreword (vases with flowers), and other ornaments at the beginning and end of the work.
Fully copied from the printed edition, including title page text, with the addition of the copyist's name and year of scribing – 1825.

32 leaves. Approx. 18 cm. Good–fair condition. Stains, including dampstains and marginal singeing. Worming. Minor marginal tears to some leaves. Red edges. New leather binding.

Exhibition:
• The Sephardic journey, 1492–1992. New York, Yeshiva University Museum, c1992, p. 225, no. 132.
Provenance: The Gross Family Collection, Tel Aviv, OT.011.001.

Manuscript, Musar Haskel by R. Hai Gaon, and Ke'arat Kesef by R. Yosef Ezobi. [Morocco, 1751].
Maghrebi script. Decorated title page; title page text includes name of scribe: Moshe son of Menachem Monsonego, and the date: 5th Kislev 1751. The name of the writer is also incorporated in the border.
Musar Haskel and Ke'arat Kesef were printed together from the start, first in Fano 1504, and later in Venice 1578. This manuscript was copied from the Venice 1578 edition (as stated on the title page and in the colophon).
Headpiece and floral illustration on p. 10b. Inscriptions on final pages, with calculations of the civil calendar for 1583 and 1700.

[11] leaves. 14.5 cm. Fair–good condition. Stains, including dampstains. Marginal open tears, not affecting text. Inscriptions. New binding.

Provenance: The Gross Family Collection, Tel Aviv, MO.011.040.

Manuscript, She'erit Yosef, on leap years and the Jewish calendar, by R. Yosef ben Shem Tov, with a commentary by R. Daniel HaKohen. [Morocco], 1794.
She'erit Yosef was first published in Salonika 1521, and again with the commentary of R. Daniel HaKohen in Salonika, 1568. The main part of the work is a long poem on calculating leap years, with a commentary by the author R. Yosef ben Shem Tov ben Yeshuah Chai, and an additional commentary by R. Daniel son of R. Perachya HaKohen. It also contains other topics relating to the calendar.
The title page states: "She'erit Yosef, I wrote it in 1794, so says Moshe son of R. Maimon Maaravi".
Many textual variations in comparison with the printed version.
Leaves 14–15 in late script.

[1], [108] leaves. 15.5 cm. Fair condition. Stains, including dampstains. Tears and open tears, primarily to first leaves, affecting text and border, repaired in part with paper. Title page detached. New leather binding.

Provenance: The Gross Family Collection, Tel Aviv, MO.011.044.

Manuscript, laws of shechitah and terefot following the customs of Marrakesh (Morocco). [Marrakesh, 19th century].
Decorated, colorful title page, stating: "Minhagei Marrakesh". The work contains laws, customs, reasons and light thoughts on the laws of shechitah and terefot. On p. [2]a, colorful illustration of a lung and other organs. Signature near the illustration (in a different hand): "Mordechai Yisrael" (Krupp Collection Ms. 287, also with the Marrakesh customs on the laws of shechitah and terefot, is signed at the end by the copyist "Mordechai Yisrael". He may be the signatory here, and perhaps this entire manuscript was copied by him).
On the endpapers, on the verso of the title page and in other places, many inscriptions and signatures of the owner "Avraham Ifergan", one of them dated 1926.

[20] leaves. 18 cm. Fair condition. Stains. Worming, affecting text. Marginal tears and open tears to some leaves, not affecting text. New binding.

Provenance: The Gross Family Collection, Tel Aviv, MO.011.072.

Manuscript, piyyutim for various occasions, in Hebrew and Judeo–Arabic. [Morocco, ca. 19th–20th centuries].
Anthology by various writers, in semi–cursive and cursive Sephardic (Maghrebi) script.
The manuscript opens with a decorative border, and a piyyut on the Ten Commandments in Judeo–Arabic. The initial word of each commandment is set in a similar frame. The scribe signed in his name in the initial word panel of the fourth commandment: "Yehoshua HaTzarfati", and again at the foot of p. 22a.
The piyyut for Shavuot is followed by piyyutim for various occasions, by R. Yaakov Berdugo and other North–African Torah scholars.
Signatures by various writers throughout the manuscript (and inscription in one place of the year 1886).

[80] leaves (including several blank leaves). Approx. 17 cm. Fair–good condition. Stains, including dampstains. Tears and open tears, affecting text (primarily to final leaves). Tears to decorations on several leaves due to ink erosion. New binding.

Provenance: The Gross Family Collection, Tel Aviv, MO.011.074.