Auction 93 Part 2 - Ancient Books, Chassidic and Kabbalistic Books, Manuscripts and Letters
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Leaves from parchment manuscripts, used as bindings:
• Two large parchment leaves, from a manuscript of the Book of Trei Asar (passages of Micha, Nachum and Chabakuk). Ashkenazic square script, with vocalization and cantillation marks, in three columns. [Germany, 13th century].
Leaves served as covering of book binding; text scraped off one side of each leaf, and remains only on the other side. On erased side of each leaf, Latin title and vol. number.
[2] leaves. 41 cm. Fair condition. Stains. Open tears, defects and folding marks, due to use in binding, affecting text (repaired with paper).
• Double parchment leaf, from manuscript book of haftarot. Ashkenazic square script, with vocalization and cantillation marks. [Italy, 13th/14th century].
Two columns per page. Sections of the haftarot of Lech Lecha, Vayera, Vayetze, Vayishlach.
Leaf used in book binding, text on outer side faded.
[1] double leaf (4 pages). 31 cm. Fair condition. Stains. Tears, defects and folding marks, due to use in binding, affecting text.
Enclosed: report by Shlomo Zucker, expert on Hebrew manuscripts.
Kel Maleh Rachamamim – lamentation for 20th Sivan, for R. Yechiel Michel of Nemirov and other martyrs of the Khmelnytsky Uprising in 1648-1649. [Eastern Europe, ca. 18th century].
Parchment manuscript. Fine floral tailpiece on final page. Alphabetical lamentation.
Over one hundred thousand Jews from the towns of southern Ukraine and Poland were brutally murdered in 1648-1649, during the Khmelnytsky Uprising. On 20th Sivan 1648, the entire Nemirov community, numbering six thousand men, women and children, was decimated, along with their rabbi R. Yechiel Michel. This day was since designated as a fast day, with special lamentations.
[2] parchment leaves (4 pages). 17 cm. Good condition. Stains. Creases and folding marks.
Lettered in gilt on the front board: "This Pinkas belongs to the holy society of Lomdei Mishnayot, founded here in Dubetsk in 1891".
The Pinkas opens with a lengthy introduction (first five leaves, on one side only), followed by the names of the founders of the society, including "R. Shalom, posek", "R. Benzion Friedman (presumably a posek in Dubetsk), "R. Pinchas Hasenfeld, writer of this Pinkas". Further in the Pinkas (after several blank leaves), names of the society members – one name per leaf. Signatures of the society founders under some of the names; some records include the date of the member's passing. Most of the rest of the Pinkas is blank.
The writer, R. Pinchas Hasenfeld, a Chassid of R. Elazar Reisher. Immigrated to Switzerland in 1932, and to Eretz Israel in 1936, where he passed away in 1942.
In a few places, stamps of Yosef Hasenfeld (son of the writer), who added on a blank leaf the names of his family members and their dates of death, in 1934-1956, including the date of passing of his father R. Pinchas – 9th Adar 1942.
[8]; 35, [10] written leaves, + over 250 blank leaves. 20 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains. Worming. Marginal tears to some leaves, repaired in part with tape. Front board and several leaves detached. Original binding, damaged.