Auction 93 Part 1 - Manuscripts, Prints and Engravings, Objects and Facsimiles, from the Gross Family Collection, and Private Collections

Manuscript, Siddur for Shacharit, with Kabbalistic Kavanot – Italy, 18th Century

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Manuscript, siddur for Shacharit following the Italian rite, with kabbalistic kavanot. [Italy, 18th century].
Cursive and square Italian script. Kavanot, halachot and practices written in smaller script. Kavanot occasionally scribed in in–text "windows". Tailpiece on final page, depicting two figures. Marginal glosses (some trimmed) by other writers.
In one of the glosses, the writer mentions the kabbalist R. Yitzchak Berechiah of Fano, referring to him as his teacher.
The writer notes his name "Binyamin" at the end of the Amidah prayer. This is followed by a prayer recited during a draught in Casale.
Inscriptions in a different hand of "Benayah son of R. Michael of Moncalvo", including an inscription from 1839 regarding the miracle which happened to his son on the way to Casale.


[43] leaves. 19.5 cm. Fair condition. Stains, including dampstains. Wear. Tears and open tears, affecting text, repaired in part with tape. Inscriptions. New binding.


Provenance: The Gross Family Collection, Tel Aviv, IT.011.005.

Italian and Greek Jewry – Manuscripts and Printed Items
Italian and Greek Jewry – Manuscripts and Printed Items