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.

Two manuscripts on the laws of Shechitah, scribed by R. Aharon son of Refael Tawil "resident of Gaza", in Rashid, Egypt, 1700. Colorful, decorated title pages:
• Zevach HaShelamim, summary of laws of Shechitah, by R. Aharon Tawil. Handwritten by the author.
The author copied the work several times, in a different redaction.

[8] leaves. 16 cm. Good–fair condition. Stains, including dampstains. Small hole to title page. New binding.

Illustrated manuscripts originating from Rashid are exceptionally rare.

• Zikaron LiBnei Yisrael, summary of laws of Shechitah and terefot, by R. Avraham Mizrachi, copied by R. Aharon Tawil in Rashid, 1700 (as stated on the decorated title page).
The work was first published in Yemin Moshe, Amsterdam 1718. The present manuscript precedes the printed edition by 18 years (with minor textual variations, without Hilchot HaKashrut at the end).

[8] leaves. 16 cm. Good–fair condition. Stains, including dampstains. A few tears. New binding.

Exhibition:
• Yeshiva University Museum, New York, "The Sephardic Journey: 1492–1992", 1990–1992, p. 166, nos. 279, 280.

Provenance: The Gross Family Collection, Tel Aviv, OT.011.004, OT.011.005.

Manuscript, Minchah and Arvit for the Three Festivals, scribed by Yitzchak Meir Chaim Moshe Gabbai. [Baghdad, 1854].
Miniature format. Neat square and semi–cursive Oriental script, with ornaments.
Colophon stating the date of completion: 25th Adar 1854. Copyist's signatures in various places in the manuscript.
Yitzchak Meir Chaim Moshe Gabbai also produced that year a decorated Passover Haggadah (sold at Kedem auction 92, part II, item 131; Gross Collection IQ.011.014). There is also a group of decorated Esther scrolls he produced in ca. 1848–1854. See Kedem auction catalog, ibid, for more details.

[43] leaves (+ many blank leaves). 9.5 cm. Good condition. Stains. Tiny marginal tears. Inscriptions. Original leather binding, damaged.

Provenance: The Gross Family Collection, Tel Aviv, IQ.011.015.

Manuscript, anthology of Goralot HaChol (geomancy), in Hebrew and Arabic.
Cursive Oriental script. Includes diagrams and illustrations.
Comprises two works on geomancy, the first [1a–12b] in Hebrew, and the second [15a–75b] in Judeo–Arabic.
Date at the beginning of the manuscript: Tuesday, 11th Iyar 1884.

[76] leaves (including several blank leaves). 21 cm. Good condition. Stains, including dampstains. Worming. Tiny marginal tears. New binding.

Provenance: The Gross Family Collection, Tel Aviv, OT.011.018.

Manuscript, prayers for the High Holidays, with Maamadot and Haftarot. [Yemen, ca. turn of the 19th century].
Illustrated title page with floral motifs in green and yellow. Yemenite script in two columns.
The title page states that the manuscript was commissioned by Yichye son of Shalom son of Yosef al–Kamri.
The name of the scribe and date are not indicated, but there is a manuscript siddur in a similar style also written for a Yichye son of Salam al–Kamri, scribed by Yichye son of Suleiman al–Abyadh in 1794, and one can presume that the present manuscript was written by the same scribe, in the same period. The scribe was possibly R. Yichye son of Suleiman al–Abyadh, a dayan in Sanaa in the times of the Maharitz.
Late addition in final leaves, with various additional piyyutim and prayers.

[1], [104] leaves. 17.5 cm. Good–fair condition. Stains. Wear. Worming, repaired in part with paper. New leather binding, with leather closures.

Exhibition:
• Jüdische Lebenswelten, Katalog, edited by Andreas Nachama and Gereon Sievernich. Berlin, 1991, p. 241, no. 10/57.
Provenance: The Gross Family Collection, Tel Aviv, YM.011.019.