Auction 93 Part 1 - Manuscripts, Prints and Engravings, Objects and Facsimiles, from the Gross Family Collection, and Private Collections
Illustrated, Colorful Manuscript – Seder for the Rashbi Hillula in Lag BaOmer, with Birkat HaChamah – Tangier, 1859–1869
Manuscript, Hillula Rabba, study order for the night of Lag BaOmer in honor of R. Shimon bar Yochai. Tangier (Morocco), 1859–1869.
Masterfully illustrated colorful manuscript. Title page with an ornamental border and floral illustrations. The book title is also decorated with flowers. Other colorful ornaments and illustrations throughout the book (vases and flowers). Neat semi–cursive Sephardic script.
The date of the manuscript – 1859, is inscribed in the title page border. Includes piyyutim in honor of R. Shimon bar Yochai, Birkat HaIlanot and Petichat Eliyahu.
Three leaves in a different hand with the Birkat HaChamah order were added at the end of the manuscript. Dated 1869 on the final page.
Illustrated manuscripts originating from Tangier are exceptionally rare.
[23] leaves. 14.5 cm. Good condition. Stains. Minor tears. Open tear to final leaf, not affecting text. New binding.
Exhibition:
• Sacred Places. Pilgrimages in Judaism, Christianity and Islam, Chris de Lauwer (editor), MAS Museum aan de Stroom, Antwerp (19 September 2014 – 18 January 2015), p. 171.
See:
• El Presente. Estudios sobre la cultura sefardí. Edited by Tamar Alexander and Yaakov Bentolila 2008, p.54.
• Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World (Leiden, 2010).
Provenance: The Gross Family Collection, Tel Aviv, MO.011.065.