Auction 49 Part I - Books, Chassidism, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters
Collection of Ancient Manuscripts – Italy and Oriental Countries – From the David Frankel Collection
Opening: $700
Sold for: $875
Including buyer's premium
Large collection of manuscripts, leaves and composition fragments, pamphlets and prayer leaves, segulot and cures. From the collection of the collector David Frankel, NY. Among the items: · Leaf remnants of books of cures. Ancient Oriental writing, [16th/17th century]. · Pamphlet, "Prayer for rescinding wars". [Italy, during the Napoleon wars, turn of 18th and 19th centuries]. · Anthology of prayers and piyyutim for the High Holidays, for drought and a special prayer for "the emissaries of the Jewish people who are called and gather before our master, His Majesty the Emperor, show them how to respond" [Frankel writes: "this was apparently made up at the time the Sanhedrin gathered in Paris"]. [Beginning of the 19th century]. · Two handwritten leaves, piyyutim and prayers. Italian handwriting. Capped by the title "These verses were copied from the manuscript of R' K. Yehuda HeChassid". [19th century]. · Collection of leaves from various times. Segulot, hasba'ot and illustrations of practical Kabbalah. (Frankel wrote: "sections which originated in a very ancient geniza"). Oriental writing, [18th-20th centuries]. · Leaf remnants of the book Sefer Tuvia. (Frankel wrote that they originated from a "very ancient geniza in Persia"). [17th/18th centuries?], etc. A complete list is available upon request. 18 items, more than 100 leaves and leaf remnants. Size and condition vary.
Ancient Manuscripts
Ancient Manuscripts