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Auction 54 - Judaica - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters, Ceremonial Art
February 7, 2017
Opening: $400
Sold for: $688
Including buyer's premium
Two Yemenite manuscripts:
· Manuscript, Haftarot for the entire year, Yemenite tradition, with Aramaic translation. Tanam (Yemen), 1818. Original and translation, one verse following another. The original has Nikud Tachton and the translation has Nikud Elyon. Bound at the end of the manuscript is a section of a machzor for the Three Festivals, including prayers and Torah portions for Passover and Hosha'anot for Succot. Colophon at the end of the Haftarot: "This Haftarah was written in the name of the good friend Sa'id son of Saliman of Kiryat Sien…in Tanam… and was completed on Monday the 25th of the month of Sivan 1818…Yosef…Chamami". Leaves lacking at the beginning and in the middle. Several leaves replaced at a later time. [191] leaves. 15 cm.
· Manuscript, Shemot, with Aramaic translation and Rashi commentary. [Yemen, c. 19th century]. The original with te'amim and nikud tachton, Targum Onkelos with nikud elyon. Rashi commentary is partially written at the bottom of the leaf and completed on separate leaves. At the end of the manuscript is a chart for leap years. [172] leaves. 16 cm.
2 manuscripts. Condition varies, overall fair condition. Stains and wear.
· Manuscript, Haftarot for the entire year, Yemenite tradition, with Aramaic translation. Tanam (Yemen), 1818. Original and translation, one verse following another. The original has Nikud Tachton and the translation has Nikud Elyon. Bound at the end of the manuscript is a section of a machzor for the Three Festivals, including prayers and Torah portions for Passover and Hosha'anot for Succot. Colophon at the end of the Haftarot: "This Haftarah was written in the name of the good friend Sa'id son of Saliman of Kiryat Sien…in Tanam… and was completed on Monday the 25th of the month of Sivan 1818…Yosef…Chamami". Leaves lacking at the beginning and in the middle. Several leaves replaced at a later time. [191] leaves. 15 cm.
· Manuscript, Shemot, with Aramaic translation and Rashi commentary. [Yemen, c. 19th century]. The original with te'amim and nikud tachton, Targum Onkelos with nikud elyon. Rashi commentary is partially written at the bottom of the leaf and completed on separate leaves. At the end of the manuscript is a chart for leap years. [172] leaves. 16 cm.
2 manuscripts. Condition varies, overall fair condition. Stains and wear.
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Yemenite Jewry - Manuscripts and Documens
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Auction 54 - Judaica - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters, Ceremonial Art
February 7, 2017
Opening: $400
Sold for: $750
Including buyer's premium
Two Yemenite manuscripts:
· Manuscript, Haftarot for the entire year and for Festivals - Yemenite tradition, with Aramaic translation. [Yemen, c. 19th century]. Handsome square Yemenite script, with te'amim. Ornamented titles. Original and translation, one verse following another. Lacking one or two leaves at the beginning (begins with the Haftarah of Parshat Noach). [131] leaves. 22 cm.
· Chumash Bamidbar and Chumash Devarim, with Aramaic translation. [Yemen, c. 19th century]. Handsome Yemenite script, with vowels and te'amim. Original and Targum Onkelos one page facing the other. Colophon with the scribe's signature on the last page: "David Manes Kapari" (see: Encyclopedia L'Chachmei Teiman, p. 580). [157] leaves. 16 cm.
2 manuscripts. Condition varies, good-fair. New bindings.
· Manuscript, Haftarot for the entire year and for Festivals - Yemenite tradition, with Aramaic translation. [Yemen, c. 19th century]. Handsome square Yemenite script, with te'amim. Ornamented titles. Original and translation, one verse following another. Lacking one or two leaves at the beginning (begins with the Haftarah of Parshat Noach). [131] leaves. 22 cm.
· Chumash Bamidbar and Chumash Devarim, with Aramaic translation. [Yemen, c. 19th century]. Handsome Yemenite script, with vowels and te'amim. Original and Targum Onkelos one page facing the other. Colophon with the scribe's signature on the last page: "David Manes Kapari" (see: Encyclopedia L'Chachmei Teiman, p. 580). [157] leaves. 16 cm.
2 manuscripts. Condition varies, good-fair. New bindings.
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Yemenite Jewry - Manuscripts and Documens
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Auction 54 - Judaica - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters, Ceremonial Art
February 7, 2017
Opening: $400
Sold for: $688
Including buyer's premium
Two Yemenite manuscripts:
· Manuscript, three Megillot - Shir Hashirim, Ruth and Kohelet, with Aramaic translation and Rashi commentary. [Yemen, c. 19th century]. Ornamented title page. Artistic scribal script, with vowels and te'amim. The origunal, the translation and the Rashi commentary were arranged on separate columns in a neat typography. 56 leaves. 21.5 cm. Good condition. New binding.
· Manuscript, three Megillot - Shir Hashirim, Ruth and Kohelet, with Aramaic translation. [Yemen, c. 19th century]. [44] leaves. 23 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains and slight wear. Worming to first three leaves, affecting text. New bindings.
· Manuscript, three Megillot - Shir Hashirim, Ruth and Kohelet, with Aramaic translation and Rashi commentary. [Yemen, c. 19th century]. Ornamented title page. Artistic scribal script, with vowels and te'amim. The origunal, the translation and the Rashi commentary were arranged on separate columns in a neat typography. 56 leaves. 21.5 cm. Good condition. New binding.
· Manuscript, three Megillot - Shir Hashirim, Ruth and Kohelet, with Aramaic translation. [Yemen, c. 19th century]. [44] leaves. 23 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains and slight wear. Worming to first three leaves, affecting text. New bindings.
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Yemenite Jewry - Manuscripts and Documens
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Auction 54 - Judaica - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters, Ceremonial Art
February 7, 2017
Opening: $400
Sold for: $750
Including buyer's premium
Diverse collection of ancient manuscript leaf fragments, removed from the "Binding Geniza", sections of various compositions.
All in Yemenite script:
· Fragments of handwritten leaves, Mishne Torah L'HaRambam. Sections from four different manuscripts.
· Fragments of handwritten leaves, Midrash HaGadol. Yemenite script. Approximately 18 sections of various size.
· Fragments of a handwritten leaf, Midrash HaGadol.
· Fragment of a handwritten leaf, Bereshit with Targum [verse per verse]. Section of Bereshit 3, 15. Nikud Elyon.
· Fragments of handwritten leaves, composition on the laws of shechita in Judeo-Arabic.
· Fragments of handwritten leaf, composition on the laws of tereifa.
· Fragments of handwritten leaf, several prayers, with Seder Pitum HaKetoret and the piyyut "Ne'um Gever Asher Yada" by R. Yichye Altzahari.
Approximately 30 leaf sections. Size varies. Varying damages caused by the binding process.
All in Yemenite script:
· Fragments of handwritten leaves, Mishne Torah L'HaRambam. Sections from four different manuscripts.
· Fragments of handwritten leaves, Midrash HaGadol. Yemenite script. Approximately 18 sections of various size.
· Fragments of a handwritten leaf, Midrash HaGadol.
· Fragment of a handwritten leaf, Bereshit with Targum [verse per verse]. Section of Bereshit 3, 15. Nikud Elyon.
· Fragments of handwritten leaves, composition on the laws of shechita in Judeo-Arabic.
· Fragments of handwritten leaf, composition on the laws of tereifa.
· Fragments of handwritten leaf, several prayers, with Seder Pitum HaKetoret and the piyyut "Ne'um Gever Asher Yada" by R. Yichye Altzahari.
Approximately 30 leaf sections. Size varies. Varying damages caused by the binding process.
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![Manuscript, Davar B'Ito, anthology, sermons, mussar and kabblistic thoughts.
Handsome Yemenite script [Eretz Israel?], [194](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale54-public/356.jpg "Manuscript - Davar B'Ito - 1948 - Mention of the Israeli War of Indepe")
Auction 54 - Judaica - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters, Ceremonial Art
February 7, 2017
Opening: $400
Sold for: $500
Including buyer's premium
Manuscript, Davar B'Ito, anthology, sermons, mussar and kabblistic thoughts.
Handsome Yemenite script [Eretz Israel?], [1948].
The name of the composition appears at the top of the page: Davar B'Ito. On the margins of page [5b] is the name: "Yichye son of Avraham Yarimi" [the author?].
On page [2a], the writer mentions the events in Eretz Israel which took place in 1948 (the Israeli War of Independence): "…Like this time, 1948, Israeli blood is unrestricted…". On page [3b] he writes: "G-d shall hear you in the day of trouble (these days of the 1948 war)…".
[167] leaves. 18.5 cm. Fair condition. Stains. Worming. Several detached leaves. Detached, damaged leather binding.
Handsome Yemenite script [Eretz Israel?], [1948].
The name of the composition appears at the top of the page: Davar B'Ito. On the margins of page [5b] is the name: "Yichye son of Avraham Yarimi" [the author?].
On page [2a], the writer mentions the events in Eretz Israel which took place in 1948 (the Israeli War of Independence): "…Like this time, 1948, Israeli blood is unrestricted…". On page [3b] he writes: "G-d shall hear you in the day of trouble (these days of the 1948 war)…".
[167] leaves. 18.5 cm. Fair condition. Stains. Worming. Several detached leaves. Detached, damaged leather binding.
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Yemenite Jewry - Manuscripts and Documens
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Auction 54 - Judaica - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters, Ceremonial Art
February 7, 2017
Opening: $400
Sold for: $500
Including buyer's premium
Two interesting historical documents of the Yemenite community in Jerusalem, at the end of the 19th century:
· Letter of appointment with 20 signatures of the heads of the Yemenite community, selecting a rabbi and leader for the Yemenite synagogue of the Mishkenot Yisrael neighborhood which was built from the donation of the wealthy R. Moshe Chanoch HaLevi and his son R. David Chai. Jerusalem, the 27th of Sivan 1895. In the margins is the testimony of the rabbis attesting to the results of the vote which took place on the 29th of Sivan in which the majority voted for R. Azriel son of Chaim Al-Naddaf. Signed by R. Shalom Yosef Araki and R. Yichya son of Yosef Tzarum.
· Letter of appointment and authorization for R. Azriel Al-Nadaff, to serve as Rabbi. Signed by the donors, the wealthy Moshe Chanoch HaLevi and his son David Chai HaLevi. The terms of the use of the funds and R. Al-Nadaff's authority in managing the synagogue are detailed in this letter. Jerusalem, the 29th of Sivan 1894.
2 leaves, size varies. Fair condition. Tears to folds of large leaf and wear.
· Letter of appointment with 20 signatures of the heads of the Yemenite community, selecting a rabbi and leader for the Yemenite synagogue of the Mishkenot Yisrael neighborhood which was built from the donation of the wealthy R. Moshe Chanoch HaLevi and his son R. David Chai. Jerusalem, the 27th of Sivan 1895. In the margins is the testimony of the rabbis attesting to the results of the vote which took place on the 29th of Sivan in which the majority voted for R. Azriel son of Chaim Al-Naddaf. Signed by R. Shalom Yosef Araki and R. Yichya son of Yosef Tzarum.
· Letter of appointment and authorization for R. Azriel Al-Nadaff, to serve as Rabbi. Signed by the donors, the wealthy Moshe Chanoch HaLevi and his son David Chai HaLevi. The terms of the use of the funds and R. Al-Nadaff's authority in managing the synagogue are detailed in this letter. Jerusalem, the 29th of Sivan 1894.
2 leaves, size varies. Fair condition. Tears to folds of large leaf and wear.
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Yemenite Jewry - Manuscripts and Documens
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Auction 54 - Judaica - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters, Ceremonial Art
February 7, 2017
Opening: $300
Sold for: $1,500
Including buyer's premium
Large collection of paperwork, documents and letters. Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and Yemen, beginning of the 20th century.
· Contracts and sales agreements of property in Jerusalem. Ownership deeds (Ottoman and Mandate kushans). · Letters by rabbis of the Yemenite community and of the Chief Rabbinate, regarding public issues, testimonies and halachic rulings. · Family letters - families Habshush, Danon, Badichi, Aziri and Ochana. · Ketubot, [Yemen, 1931]. · Leaves and sections of ancient Yemenite manuscripts [17th-19th centuries].
Hundreds of leaves. Size and condition vary. Overall Good to fair condition.
· Contracts and sales agreements of property in Jerusalem. Ownership deeds (Ottoman and Mandate kushans). · Letters by rabbis of the Yemenite community and of the Chief Rabbinate, regarding public issues, testimonies and halachic rulings. · Family letters - families Habshush, Danon, Badichi, Aziri and Ochana. · Ketubot, [Yemen, 1931]. · Leaves and sections of ancient Yemenite manuscripts [17th-19th centuries].
Hundreds of leaves. Size and condition vary. Overall Good to fair condition.
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Yemenite Jewry - Manuscripts and Documens
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Auction 54 - Judaica - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters, Ceremonial Art
February 7, 2017
Opening: $300
Sold for: $875
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Handwritten leaf, authorization given to a woman to bury her husband in the Jewish cemetery in the city of Cochin (India) complying with his testament, signed by the members of the Beit Din and the heads of the Jewish community. Cochin, Nissan 1871.
Stated in the authorization that "Mrs. Farha daughter of Yitzchak Ashkenazi brought her husband Efraim Zalman son of Yosef Ashkenazi from the city of Madras (Chennai) to the city of Cochin to bury him in a Jewish cemetery…". The Beit Din members and the heads of the "white" Jewish community in Cochin signed the authorization: R. Efraim Yosef, R. Moshe Elya Rachavi, R. Elya David Rechavi, R. Shmuel Chaim Rachavi and R. Yosef David Rachavi. Added to the top of the leaf is a stamp of the Cochin synagogue, as written in the authorization: "She should have proof and testimony that she fulfilled her husband's will…we have written and signed…and also placed the stamp of the synagogue…".
Folded leaf, [1] page. 20 cm. Bluish paper. Fair condition. Stains and dampstains, folding creases and tears.
Provenance: Sassoon family collection.
Stated in the authorization that "Mrs. Farha daughter of Yitzchak Ashkenazi brought her husband Efraim Zalman son of Yosef Ashkenazi from the city of Madras (Chennai) to the city of Cochin to bury him in a Jewish cemetery…". The Beit Din members and the heads of the "white" Jewish community in Cochin signed the authorization: R. Efraim Yosef, R. Moshe Elya Rachavi, R. Elya David Rechavi, R. Shmuel Chaim Rachavi and R. Yosef David Rachavi. Added to the top of the leaf is a stamp of the Cochin synagogue, as written in the authorization: "She should have proof and testimony that she fulfilled her husband's will…we have written and signed…and also placed the stamp of the synagogue…".
Folded leaf, [1] page. 20 cm. Bluish paper. Fair condition. Stains and dampstains, folding creases and tears.
Provenance: Sassoon family collection.
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Far Eastern Jewry - Books, Manuscripts and Letters
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Auction 54 - Judaica - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters, Ceremonial Art
February 7, 2017
Opening: $500
Sold for: $1,875
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Manuscript of Tehillim, with a Judeo-Arabic (Serach) translation. Calcutta, 1849. Title page and colophon illustrated with calligraphic ornamentations, signed by the writer.
Manuscript, text and translation verse following verse, written by R. Chaim Shimon Chaim Shlomo David [a wealthy influential individual of the Calcutta, India community]. The scribe wrote on the title page: "I have begun to write it on Tuesday the 15th of Sivan 1849 and I have completed it on Monday, the 25th of Kislev 1849, here in the city of Calcutta".
[1] page; 135 leaves. 20.5 cm. Thin greenish-grayish paper. Good-fair condition. Wear and detached leaves. The first 12 leaves have a tear down the middle affecting the text. Contemporary leather binding, with gold embossments. Worn binding.
Manuscript, text and translation verse following verse, written by R. Chaim Shimon Chaim Shlomo David [a wealthy influential individual of the Calcutta, India community]. The scribe wrote on the title page: "I have begun to write it on Tuesday the 15th of Sivan 1849 and I have completed it on Monday, the 25th of Kislev 1849, here in the city of Calcutta".
[1] page; 135 leaves. 20.5 cm. Thin greenish-grayish paper. Good-fair condition. Wear and detached leaves. The first 12 leaves have a tear down the middle affecting the text. Contemporary leather binding, with gold embossments. Worn binding.
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Far Eastern Jewry - Books, Manuscripts and Letters
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Auction 54 - Judaica - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters, Ceremonial Art
February 7, 2017
Opening: $1,500
Sold for: $1,875
Including buyer's premium
Manuscript, serach of Mishlei and Kohelet, Judeo-Arabic. Rangoon, Burma (today: Yangon, Myanmar), 1908.
Square, vowelized script.
Manuscript includes Ketzet Chana at the end [story of Chana in Judeo-Arabic].
Colophon on leaf 31, after the serach of Mishlei: "Completed…Rosh Chodesh Tamuz 1908 Rangoon".
[48] leaves. 21 cm. Condition varies. Approximately 15 leaves of Serach Mishlei are torn (from ink erosion), heavily affecting the text. Serach Kohelet and Ketzet Chana are complete and in good condition (with the exception of a small tear to the margins of one leaf). New binding.
Square, vowelized script.
Manuscript includes Ketzet Chana at the end [story of Chana in Judeo-Arabic].
Colophon on leaf 31, after the serach of Mishlei: "Completed…Rosh Chodesh Tamuz 1908 Rangoon".
[48] leaves. 21 cm. Condition varies. Approximately 15 leaves of Serach Mishlei are torn (from ink erosion), heavily affecting the text. Serach Kohelet and Ketzet Chana are complete and in good condition (with the exception of a small tear to the margins of one leaf). New binding.
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Far Eastern Jewry - Books, Manuscripts and Letters
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Auction 54 - Judaica - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters, Ceremonial Art
February 7, 2017
Opening: $400
Sold for: $688
Including buyer's premium
Manuscript, Ben Sira, "By the famous wise man Ben Sira son of Yirmiyahu the Prophet", with the book Ma'ase Torah, "said by Rabbeinu HaKadosh", and with Orchot Chaim by "R. Eliezer HaGadol". Cochin, [1820].
Handsome Oriental script. Copy of the book Ben Sira, Amsterdam 1697 edition, which also contains the compositions Ma'ase Torah and Orchot Chaim. Including the publisher's introduction.
The scribe also copied the original text of the title page and added "And this was copied in Cochin in the year 1820…Yosef son of R Yichye Tubi…today Monday, the 16th of the month of Sivan, the scribe Ya'akov son of R. Avraham Yosef Tanami". The scribe signed his name again on the colophon which appears at the end of the manuscript.
45 leaves. 14 cm. Fair condition. Stains and wear. Worming, affecting text. Loose leaves. Contemporary, slightly damaged leather binding.
Handsome Oriental script. Copy of the book Ben Sira, Amsterdam 1697 edition, which also contains the compositions Ma'ase Torah and Orchot Chaim. Including the publisher's introduction.
The scribe also copied the original text of the title page and added "And this was copied in Cochin in the year 1820…Yosef son of R Yichye Tubi…today Monday, the 16th of the month of Sivan, the scribe Ya'akov son of R. Avraham Yosef Tanami". The scribe signed his name again on the colophon which appears at the end of the manuscript.
45 leaves. 14 cm. Fair condition. Stains and wear. Worming, affecting text. Loose leaves. Contemporary, slightly damaged leather binding.
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Far Eastern Jewry - Books, Manuscripts and Letters
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Auction 54 - Judaica - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters, Ceremonial Art
February 7, 2017
Opening: $500
Sold for: $3,250
Including buyer's premium
Diverse collection of manuscripts, and fragments of manuscripts and printed matter.
The collection is composed of:
Various manuscripts in Oriental writing [Oriental countries, most are from Baghdad and India]: · Manuscript, songs for Hakafot and for Simchat Torah. · Manuscript, Haftarah of Tisha B'Av, with Serach [Judeo-Arabic transaction]. · Manuscript, Passover Haggadah, with Serach [Judeo-Arabic translation]. · Manuscript, Shabbat songs with Birkat HaMazon. · Manuscript, songs for various occasions [Shabbat HaGadol, Chanuka, etc.]. · Manuscript, refrains for those who receive an aliya on Simchat Torah. · Manuscript, poem for Purim [damaged and lacking]. On the first leaf is a dedication by the writer: "Gift for the dear…wife of the influential Ezra Meir son of R. Avraham Shalom Saliman Shimon in the city of Singapore". · Several handwritten leaves, commentary on the Book of Tehillim (Chapters 17-18). · More manuscript or sections of manuscripts.
· Binding of a book, with manuscript fragments, customs of shechita and terefot according to the Marrakesh tradition (Sassoon manuscript, Ohel David, p. 753), and more unidentified fragments.
· [7] leaves from the Book of Kohelet with Rashi commentary. Unidentified printing press.
· Various printed leaves, some fragments of ancient printed leaves removed from the "Binding Geniza", a number of proclamations related to the Babylonian community in Jerusalem, and more.
Approximately 50 items. Size and condition vary.
Provenance: Sassoon family collection.
The collection is composed of:
Various manuscripts in Oriental writing [Oriental countries, most are from Baghdad and India]: · Manuscript, songs for Hakafot and for Simchat Torah. · Manuscript, Haftarah of Tisha B'Av, with Serach [Judeo-Arabic transaction]. · Manuscript, Passover Haggadah, with Serach [Judeo-Arabic translation]. · Manuscript, Shabbat songs with Birkat HaMazon. · Manuscript, songs for various occasions [Shabbat HaGadol, Chanuka, etc.]. · Manuscript, refrains for those who receive an aliya on Simchat Torah. · Manuscript, poem for Purim [damaged and lacking]. On the first leaf is a dedication by the writer: "Gift for the dear…wife of the influential Ezra Meir son of R. Avraham Shalom Saliman Shimon in the city of Singapore". · Several handwritten leaves, commentary on the Book of Tehillim (Chapters 17-18). · More manuscript or sections of manuscripts.
· Binding of a book, with manuscript fragments, customs of shechita and terefot according to the Marrakesh tradition (Sassoon manuscript, Ohel David, p. 753), and more unidentified fragments.
· [7] leaves from the Book of Kohelet with Rashi commentary. Unidentified printing press.
· Various printed leaves, some fragments of ancient printed leaves removed from the "Binding Geniza", a number of proclamations related to the Babylonian community in Jerusalem, and more.
Approximately 50 items. Size and condition vary.
Provenance: Sassoon family collection.
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