Auction 70 - Judaica - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters, Ceremonial Art
Varied Collection of Handwritten Leaves and Manuscript Fragments - Sephardic, Oriental and Yemenite Scripts
Opening: $300
Sold for: $750
Including buyer's premium
Varied collection of handwritten leaves and manuscript fragments, including some early manuscripts, in Sephardic, Oriental and Yemenite scripts:
• Leaf fragments from a binding's genizah, with early inscriptions, presumably from Salonika, 16th century. Records of the various communities in the city: "Calabria Chadash", "Calabria Yashan", "Isphania" (Spanish), "Aragon", "Shalom", "Etz Chaim", "Gerush Catalans", and others; with the names of many community members, including "Yosef Taitazak" (perhaps the renowned Maharit, d. 1546, leading Salonika Torah scholar and teacher of the Maharshdam and R. Shlomo Alkabetz), "Yehuda Benveniste", "Yitzchak Baruchiel", "Moshe Gabriel" and others.
• Two additional leaf fragments, with lists of notables, presumably also from Salonika. One of the fragments mentions: "Vidal Cid", "Vidal Gedalia", "Yitzchak Abarbanel", "Yitzchak Penso" and others.
• Five leaf fragments, in early Yemenite script, from an unidentified composition in Judeo-Arabic. [Yemen, 16th century?]. The leaves were repaired with restoration paper.
• Five parchment fragments, from early manuscripts. Two of them contain parts of Pirkei Avot (in Sephardic square script); in the others, the ink has faded almost completely, to the point that the composition is difficult to identify.
• Endpaper of a book, a lengthy note of Torah thoughts in Sephardic script, Ashkenazic and Sephardic inscriptions and signatures.
• Endpaper of a book, inscriptions pertaining to the calculation of the new moon, with an ownership inscription: "Given to Avraham by R. Eli[--?], who resides in the home of R. Chaim Egozi".
• Handwritten leaf, transcript of a Beit Din ruling pertaining to property ownership. [Morocco]. The ruling concludes: "The perfect scholar, superior dayan R. Moshe Benhamou and his veteran disciples R. David Benshetrit, R. Meir De Avila and R. Masoud Benrebbouh…".
• 31 leaves from a siddur, in Yemenite script. Small format. [Yemen].
• Leaves from Anshei Chayil - lithograph of a halachic responsum by R. Yehuda Bibas pertaining to Etrogim. Approx. 3 out of 15 leaves. (Enclosed: offprint of an article by Prof. Meir Benayahu: New Information Regarding R. Yehuda Bibas).
• Other leaves from manuscripts (Halachah, piyyutim and others).
Approx. 50 leaves and leaf fragments. Size and condition vary.
• Leaf fragments from a binding's genizah, with early inscriptions, presumably from Salonika, 16th century. Records of the various communities in the city: "Calabria Chadash", "Calabria Yashan", "Isphania" (Spanish), "Aragon", "Shalom", "Etz Chaim", "Gerush Catalans", and others; with the names of many community members, including "Yosef Taitazak" (perhaps the renowned Maharit, d. 1546, leading Salonika Torah scholar and teacher of the Maharshdam and R. Shlomo Alkabetz), "Yehuda Benveniste", "Yitzchak Baruchiel", "Moshe Gabriel" and others.
• Two additional leaf fragments, with lists of notables, presumably also from Salonika. One of the fragments mentions: "Vidal Cid", "Vidal Gedalia", "Yitzchak Abarbanel", "Yitzchak Penso" and others.
• Five leaf fragments, in early Yemenite script, from an unidentified composition in Judeo-Arabic. [Yemen, 16th century?]. The leaves were repaired with restoration paper.
• Five parchment fragments, from early manuscripts. Two of them contain parts of Pirkei Avot (in Sephardic square script); in the others, the ink has faded almost completely, to the point that the composition is difficult to identify.
• Endpaper of a book, a lengthy note of Torah thoughts in Sephardic script, Ashkenazic and Sephardic inscriptions and signatures.
• Endpaper of a book, inscriptions pertaining to the calculation of the new moon, with an ownership inscription: "Given to Avraham by R. Eli[--?], who resides in the home of R. Chaim Egozi".
• Handwritten leaf, transcript of a Beit Din ruling pertaining to property ownership. [Morocco]. The ruling concludes: "The perfect scholar, superior dayan R. Moshe Benhamou and his veteran disciples R. David Benshetrit, R. Meir De Avila and R. Masoud Benrebbouh…".
• 31 leaves from a siddur, in Yemenite script. Small format. [Yemen].
• Leaves from Anshei Chayil - lithograph of a halachic responsum by R. Yehuda Bibas pertaining to Etrogim. Approx. 3 out of 15 leaves. (Enclosed: offprint of an article by Prof. Meir Benayahu: New Information Regarding R. Yehuda Bibas).
• Other leaves from manuscripts (Halachah, piyyutim and others).
Approx. 50 leaves and leaf fragments. Size and condition vary.
Early Manuscripts - 15th and 16th Centuries
Early Manuscripts - 15th and 16th Centuries