Zohar on the Torah, Part I – Bereshit, with glosses by the Chida. Livorno: Eliezer Saadon, [1791]. Part I of four (vol. I of III).

The glosses of the Chida were printed here for the first time.

Copy of R. Yaakov Shimshon Shabtai Sinigaglia, author of Shabbat shel Mi, with several glosses in his handwriting. One gloss signed with his initials, mentioning his book Nezir Shimshon.
At the end of the book a leaf in his handwriting was bound, containing the text to recite upon the completion of the study of each part of the Zohar, and a prayer to recite after studying kabbalah.
Inscription in square script on the title page, presumably also in his handwriting.

R. Yaakov Shimshon Shabtai Sinigaglia (1740s – ca. 1840), leading Italian Torah scholar and particularly prolific author. He authored many compositions, some of which are to date unpublished. Renowned for his work Shabbat shel Mi on Tractate Shabbat, a classic book for the study of this tractate. Held in high regard by the rabbis of his generation.

[8], 251; 19 leaves. 22.5 cm. Bluish paper (in part). Fair condition. Stains, including dampstains. Worming, affecting text and title page border. Wear and tears. Marginal tears to first leaf and other leaves, repaired in part with paper. Detached leaves. Leather binding, damaged and detached.

Leaf from a diwan of poems by R. Avraham Ibn Ezra. [Oriental script, ca. 12th/13th century].
Written on both sides. See Hebrew description for contents of the leaf.

[1] leaf. 23 cm. Fair condition. Stains. Open tears, affecting text, professionally restored with paper.

Two manuscripts – commentaries on the Torah portions, early copyings in Oriental script, possibly by the same writer:
• Midrash Lekach Tov (Pesikta Zutrata) by R. Tuviah son of R. Eliezer, on the Book of Bereshit. [Sephardic lands, 16th/17th century].
Semi-cursive Oriental script. Comprises a large part of the book of Bereshit, from the middle of Parashat Vayera until the middle of Parashat Vayechi; lacking several leaves in the middle.

[33] leaves. 31.5 cm. Fair condition. Stains, including large dampstains and dark stains, affecting text. Wear. Marginal tears and open tears, affecting text.

• Remazim LeRabbenu Yoel. [Sephardic lands, 16th/17th century].
Oriental script. Comprises the major part of the commentary, from the middle of Parashat Noach until the middle of Parashat Ki Tetze; lacking leaves in the middle.
Lengthy marginal glosses in a different hand (Oriental, Persian), presumably not part of the original work. Many glosses are signed at the end: "David son of Yitzchak".
Sefer HaRemazim is an anthology of allusions and commentaries from early Ashkenazic Torah scholars, compiled by R. Yoel, a Torah scholar from the Beit Midrash of R. Yehuda HaChassid in Germany. The only known manuscripts of this work are from Yemen, where it was extensively copied and used. The work was only first published in 2001.

[72] leaves. 30 cm. Fair condition. Stains, including dampstains and dark stains. Tears and open tears, affecting text. Unbound.

Manuscript, sermons and eulogies, by an unidentified author. [Aleppo, 19th century].
Oriental script.
Inscription in later hand on endpaper, attributing the book to the rabbi of Aleppo, and requesting that it be published.

[14] leaves. 18.5 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains. Marginal tears. Leaves trimmed close to text in some places, with damage to text. Old binding, damaged.

Leaf (two written pages, some 37 lines) handwritten by R. Yosef Chaim of Baghdad, the Ben Ish Chai. [Baghdad, ca. second half of 19th century].
Handwritten by the author, with emendations and deletions. Section of a sermon; with kabbalistic allusions on the verse "So shall you bless the children of Israel".

[1] leaf (2 pages). 13 cm. Good condition. New, elegant binding.