Auction 85 - Judaica: Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters, Ceremonial Art
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Manuscript – leaves from Sefer HaAruch, by R. Nathan ben Yechiel of Rome. [Italy, ca. 17th century?].
Eight leaves, in Italian cursive script (with initials in square letters). Small section of the work – entries "Ach" to "Antler" (manuscript lacking beginning). Several glosses.
[8] leaves. 28 cm. Fair-good condition. Stains. Wear and tears. Open tear to first leaf, slightly affecting text. Repaired with paper. Inscriptions. New binding.
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Handwritten leaf, removed from a "binding genizah" – Sifra, on the weekly portion of Bechukotai. Sephardic script, [ca. 13th/14th century].
An almost complete leaf (damaged, with some loss of text) – beginning of the midrash on Bechukotai.
[1] leaf. Approx. 30 cm. Fair condition. Stains, including dark stains. Damage and open tears affecting text (mostly to margins). Worming affecting text.
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Fragments of parchment manuscript – Sefer HaEshkol, by R. Avraham ben Yitzchak of Narbonne. Semi-cursive Sephardic script, [ca. 13th century].
Sections of Hilchot Tzitzit and Hilchot Pidyon HaBen. Fragments of two double spreads – the bottom third of each spread (approx. ten last lines), damaged.
Sefer HaEshkol is an important early halachic work, written by R. Avraham ben Yitzchak (ca. 1080-1158), a leading Torah scholar in Provence, father-in-law of the Raavad Baal HaHasagot. He was a disciple of R. Yehuda ben Barzillai of Barcelona (a prominent Spanish Torah scholar). Sefer HaEshkol is quoted extensively in the books of the Rishonim and in later halachic literature.
[2] leaves. Size varies. Various degrees of damage due to use in binding.
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Manuscript leaf on parchment, fragment of an early prayer book, removed from a "binding genizah", bearing a unique, expanded version of the Baruch SheAmar blessing. [Yemen, 13th century].
Early Yemenite script. Supralinear vocalization.
This unique version of the Baruch SheAmar blessing does not appear in the extant Tiklal prayer books, however, it is similar in part to the early Persian version.
[1] parchment leaf (written on one side). 21 cm. Fair-poor condition. Stains. Tears, holes and extensive worming, affecting text. Some of the text faded and is hardly legible.
Description based on a report (enclosed) by Mr. Shlomo Zucker, expert on Hebrew manuscripts.
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Fragment of a manuscript on parchment, Sefer Rossino on the Torah. Oriental script, [14th/15th century?].
Section of Sefer Rossino – commentary on the Torah by Rabbi Samuel of Rossino, a Torah scholar active in South Italy and the Byzantine Empire in the 11th and 12th centuries. The book survived in several early manuscripts and was first published only after some 850 years (Sefer Rushino, Jerusalem: Mossad HaRav Kook, 1977; edited by Rabbi Dr. Moshe Weiss).
R. Shmuel of Rossino was a leading Torah commentator, a contemporary of Rashi.
5 manuscript fragments. Size varies. Various degrees of damage. Part of the text is faded and illegible.
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Two manuscript parchment leaves, apparently from a "binding genizah" – Sefer Mitzvot Gadol (Smag). [Germany? ca. 14th century].
Ashkenazi square script. Some decorated letters (twice in the name Yaakov). Two columns per page.
Two leaves (four pages) from the section Negative Commandment 111.
[2] leaves (written on both sides). Approx. 24-25 cm. Fair condition. Stains and damage. Worming and open tears, affecting text.
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Collection of fragments of early manuscripts, with fragments of printed leaves, removed from a "binding genizah":
• Section of a composition on the 13 Principles of Jewish Faith. Oriental (Byzantine) script, [ca. 15th century]. [1] leaf.
• Sections of a commentary on Talmudic Aggadot, Tractate Pesachim (fol. 87). Oriental script, [ca. 15th century]. Including an essay on the subject of prophecy. Unknown author. [6] leaves.
• Section of the Radak commentary on Prophets, commentary to the Book of Yechezkel (3:12-4:3). Sephardic script, [ca. 15 century]. [1] leaf.
• Fragments of printed leaves removed from bindings. Including sections from the book Sodot Gedolim MiChachmei HaEmet, Constantinople, 1515 (first printing of the writings of Kabbalist R. Moshe de Leon); Five Books of the Torah, with Ladino translation, Constantinople, 1547; and more.
[9] handwritten leaf fragments + [5] printed leaf fragments. Size varies. Various degrees of damage due to use in binding.
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