Auction 30 - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters

Sefer Segulot – Bombay, 1863 / Sefer Malachei Kodesh – Jerusalem, 1862 – Talismans and Signatures – Persia

Opening: $250
Sold for: $475
Including buyer's premium
Book of supplications, Segulot [supernatural protections] and Derech Eretz [desired mode of behavior]. Bombay, [1863]. Lithography. * Bound with: Sefer Malachei Kodesh, prayers and ethics, Shir [song] HaYichud “composed by sons of Moshe beyond riverbank of Sambatyon…”, Igeret HaRambam, commentary by the Ba’al Shem Tov and more. Jerusalem, [1862]. (S. HaLevi 66).
Signatures and stamps of Rabbi Shlomo Cohen Tzedek, Av Beit Din of Tehran (See item 202). Binding leaves at beginning and end of book contain instructions for his Segulot in Hebrew and in Jewish-Persian in his handwriting. Several handwritten talismans found between leaves of book [one talisman upon parchment].
Book of supplications and Segulot: 48; 112 pages; Sefer Malachei Kodesh: 20, [2], 25-28 leaves. 17 cm. Good-fair condition, stains and tears. Damaged binding.
Persian (Iranian) Jewry – Manuscripts and Glosses, Amulets and Practical Kabbalah
Persian (Iranian) Jewry – Manuscripts and Glosses, Amulets and Practical Kabbalah