Large collection of manuscripts, leaves and composition fragments, pamphlets and prayer leaves, segulot and cures. From the collection of the collector David Frankel, NY. Among the items: · Leaf remnants of books of cures. Ancient Oriental writing, [16th/17th century]. · Pamphlet, "Prayer for rescinding wars". [Italy, during the Napoleon wars, turn of 18th and 19th centuries]. · Anthology of prayers and piyyutim for the High Holidays, for drought and a special prayer for "the emissaries of the Jewish people who are called and gather before our master, His Majesty the Emperor, show them how to respond" [Frankel writes: "this was apparently made up at the time the Sanhedrin gathered in Paris"]. [Beginning of the 19th century]. · Two handwritten leaves, piyyutim and prayers. Italian handwriting. Capped by the title "These verses were copied from the manuscript of R' K. Yehuda HeChassid". [19th century]. · Collection of leaves from various times. Segulot, hasba'ot and illustrations of practical Kabbalah. (Frankel wrote: "sections which originated in a very ancient geniza"). Oriental writing, [18th-20th centuries]. · Leaf remnants of the book Sefer Tuvia. (Frankel wrote that they originated from a "very ancient geniza in Persia"). [17th/18th centuries?], etc. A complete list is available upon request. 18 items, more than 100 leaves and leaf remnants. Size and condition vary.

Leaf fragments from an ancient manuscript, removed from the Binding Geniza. Italian / Byzantine writing, [14th/15 century]. One leaf was identified as a part of Sefer HaChaim, a basic book of Ashkenazi Chassidim, attributed by some to Rabbi Eliezer of Worms, author of the Rokeach. The other leaves are from the Ramban's commentary on Bereshit and Shemot. 6 leaf fragments. Size and condition vary, various damages sustained by removal from the binding.

Manuscript, novellae on Shulchan Aruch Yoreh Deah, laws of Nidah, laws of blood and salting meat, and ta'arovot (mixtures - kashrut). [Metz, c. 1740-1750]. Two pamphlets of Torah novellae bound together. Written by two writers, both disciples of Rabbi Jonathan Eybeschutz while in Metz. [Rabbi Jonathan Eybeschutz served as Rabbi of Metz from 1740-1750, thereafter he moved to serve in the Altona and Hamburg rabbinates]. At the beginning of the laws of Nidah is the title: "Explanations of the laws of Nidah from my teacher…Rabbi Yonatan Eybeschutz Av Beit Din of Metz". At the beginning of the laws of blood and salting is the title: "Novellae on halachot of blood and salting by R' Y. Av Beit Din of Metz". The novellae on the laws of Nidah are almost identical to the version printed in his book Kreiti V'Pleiti, but the novellae on the laws of blood and salting and ta'arovot are completely different from the printed version although the subject matter is similar and we are certain that this manuscript contains the teachings of Rabbi Jonathan Eybeschutz written by one of his disciples in his lifetime. While editing his books Kreiti U'Pleiti and Urim V'Tumim, Rabbi Eybeschutz would be careful to arrange two editions of his novellae: First, Mahudura Kama and after inspecting the notebooks of his leading disciples who wrote his novellae, he would re-edit the topics in Mahadura Batra (second edition) from his own writings and his disciples' writings. [His other books: Ye'arot Dvash and the rest of his books of homiletics and Torah commentary were primarily written from disciples' notebooks]. This first pamphlet on the laws of Nidah is apparently the Mahadura Batra, since it matches the printed version. [The first pamphlet on the laws of Nidah is a copy – apparently from a manuscript of the author himself and it has the signs of a scribe's copy: omissions of mistakes of similar letters and copier's errors]. However, the second pamphlet on the laws of blood and salting and ta'arovot differs from the printed version and has novellae that had not been printed. The style of the language in this pamphlet is similar to the writing of Rabbi Yehonatan Eybeschutz, apparently these are sections of the Mahadura Kama of his Kreiti U'Pleiti. Nonetheless, possibly this pamphlet is not a copy of his manuscript, but a copy of a notebook of a disciple who wrote his own thoughts. Rabbi Eybeschutz himself writes in his introduction to his disciples' notebooks that "Each one writes according to his understanding and ability". 41 leaves; 20 leaves (more than 120 written leaves). 22 cm. + two torn leaf fragments. Good-fair condition, wear and stains. Light worming. Without binding.

Two letters with halachic responsa, handwritten and signed by Rabbi Eliyahu E.S. [Eisenstadter]. Derecske, 1859. The letters were addressed to his teacher Rabbi Avraham Shmuel Binyamin Sofer, author of the Ktav Sofer. Rabbi Eliyahu Eisenstadter was born in Vilna, Lithuania. In his youth, he traveled to Hungary to study in the Pressburg Yeshiva headed by the Ktav Sofer. In 1852, he married his wife from the Heller family in Surány and from 1855 he served as first rabbi of the Derecske community in Hungary (Bihar district, near the city of Debrecen). He remained at that post for two decades and established all the community institutes, a yeshiva and elementary school. He exchanged halachic correspondence with his teacher, the Ktav Sofer [see the Ktav Sofer responsa, Orach Chaim, Siman 5; Yoreh Deah, Simanim 13, 146, 165; Even HaEzer Simanim 12, 13]. In the book, Shem HaGedolim M'Eretz Hagar, Rabbi Elya is described as a "Complete Tsaddik, famous Chassid, fasted from one Shabbat until the next". After his death in 1876, eulogies about him were printed in Tikun Shlomo, by Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Shpitzer, and in Likutei Chaver ben Chaim, by Rabbi Feivel Plaut. His Torah novellae were never printed. 8 written pages, approx. 21 cm. Good-fair condition, worn.

Manuscript, "Anthology – compiled from first and later Torah authorities dearer than gold and costly pearls", novellae on the Talmud and on the Maharsha, with a circumcision ledger, by Rabbi Shmuel Shub Perlberg. [Hungary, 1851-1884]. Thick volume, in attractive Ashkenazi writing. Ornamented title page, written on its margin: "Completed on Sunday, Rosh Chodesh Shevat, 1851". Although the words "compiled from first and later Torah authorities" are written on the title page, this seems to be an original composition, containing novellae on tractates heard or copied by the writer. The author, Rabbi Shmuel Shub Perlberg, born in Novy Dvor. From around 1860, he lived in Hungary. At the end of the volume is a circumcision ledger: Prayers for a Mohel and the Seder Milah, followed by records of circumcisions performed by the writer during 1862-1984 in various Hungarian villages. On the last pages are family records of Rabbi Shmuel Shub. [1], 223; 53, [13] leaves (approximately 290 written leaves and many empty leaves). 16 cm. Good condition. Stains and wear, detached leaf, some worming. Leather binding, used. Enclosed is an expert's authorization.