Auction 85 - Judaica: Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters, Ceremonial Art
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Letter handwritten and signed by R. Chaim Amram, author of MiTaam HaMelech. [Mid-18th century / early 19th century].
Addressed to his dear friend Yitzchak. Written alternately in Hebrew and Ladino. The letter concerns monetary matters; R. Amram reproaches his friend for spending assets without the owner's knowledge.
With the calligraphic signature of R. Chaim Amram.
R. Chaim Amram (ca. 1759-1825), born in Safed, was raised in Damascus, where he became a leading Torah scholar, teaching many and serving on the Beit Din. In 1805, he settled in Safed. In his final years, he moved to Alexandria, Egypt, where he passed away. He is renowned for his many compositions, some of which remained in manuscript: MiTaam HaMelech (7 parts), Responsa Torei Zahav, Devar HaMelech on the Torah, Nora Tehillim on Tehillim, several Talmudic works, and more.
[1] leaf. 19 cm. Good condition. Some stains.
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"Order of Havdalah according to the custom of my father" – prayers, reading passages and songs for Motza'ei Shabbat. [Corfu], 1811.
Oriental script, square and semi-cursive. Illustrated title page, reading: "Order of Havdalah according to the custom of my father. I, the writer, Aviad Sar Shalom son of R. Moshe Eliyahu, 9th Iyar 1811".
The manuscript comprises various texts to be recited on Motza'ei Shabbat, including segulot for various matters. Instructions and kabbalistic kavanot appear in semi-cursive script, in smaller letters.
Illustrations of a LaMenatze'ach menorah and an Ana B'Koach menorah, with Holy Names.
[20] leaves (and several blank leaves). 19 cm. Fair condition. Stains (browned leaves). Tears and extensive worming, affecting text. Several detached leaves. Original binding, with leather spine, damaged.
Enclosed: a handwritten note stating that the manuscript was purchased "with several other manuscripts, all from Corfu".
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Collection of printed leaves – title pages and leaves from various books, with signatures, dedicatory inscriptions and glosses, from the 17th-19th centuries.
The collection includes: • Two title pages with the signatures of R. Chaim Palachi. • Leaves from Mishneh Torah by the Rambam, Sefer HaMada (Venice, 1574). Signature: "Avraham de Avila". Glosses in Sephardic script, by several writers (a lengthy gloss on p. 32b). • Title page with the signature of "Wolf Eger" (presumably the signature of R. Akiva Eger's uncle and teacher). • Title pages with signatures of R. Yedidya Shlomo Yisrael, R. Shmuel Shalem (rabbi of Salonika, author of Melech Shalem), R. Yehuda Bonomo, R. Avraham Krispin, and other rabbis (some unidentified signatures). • Title page of Kemach Solet (Salonika, 1798), inscribed by the author R. Yehuda ben Moshe Ali to R. Eliyahu Ventura. • Several leaves with glosses. • Lengthy note – Torah thoughts handwritten by R. Rachamim Chaim Yehuda Yisrael, rabbi of Rhodes and author of Ben Yamin. • And more.
34 items. Size and condition vary.
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Four leaves (8 pages) handwritten by R. Yosef Chaim of Baghdad, the Ben Ish Chai. [Baghdad], 1865.
Notes for homilies, written by Ben Ish Chai on the verses of the Haftarah of Parashat Masei. The sections are complete. Four of the sections conclude with the Ben Ish Chai's blessing: "May G-d come to our assistance, guard us and help us always". One section also begins with his blessing: "May His glory be restored, and His kingdom revealed upon us imminently".
[4] leaves (eight pages; over 150 autograph lines). 13.5 cm. Bluish paper. Good condition. Some stains. Tiny marginal tears.
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Three manuscripts – segulot, amulets, goralot and mazalot. Sephardic lands, 20th century.
• Manuscript, amulets, segulot and mazalot. [Egypt?, 1941?]. Writer's signatures: "Shabtai son of R. Meir".
At the end of the manuscript: "… in 1941, the price of wheat will be very high… and many young men will die… There will be hunger in the West… and Hitler will conquer the entire world!… May G-d save the Jewish People…".
[29] leaves. 12.5 cm.
• Manuscript, amulets and goralot. [Sephardic lands, 20th century].
Contains kabbalistic illustrations and "angelic script", segulot for various problems and texts of amulets. Hebrew and Judeo-Arabic.
[23] leaves. 22 cm.
• Manuscript, amulets, tekufot and mazalot, and more. [Yemen, 20th century].
Contains amulet for protection of the newborn and mother, and several illustrations. Hebrew and Judeo-Arabic.
[23] leaves. 20 cm.
3 manuscripts. Condition varies (overall good-fair condition).
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Collection of items from the archive of Alberto Hemsi, composer and musicologist (1898-1975), choir conductor in the Eliyahu HaNavi synagogue in Alexandria – sheet music booklets, photographs and other items. [Egypt and France, ca. 1920s-1970s]. Hebrew, Arabic and French.
• Sheet music booklets by Alberto Hemsi, with sheet music for dozens of melodies and piyyutim – Egypt and France, 1930s-1970s.
• Group photograph of the choir members of the Eliyahu HaNavi synagogue in Alexandria, with the conductor Alberto Hemsi and his assistant. [Egypt, 1939].
• Three photographs, presumably portraying the members and directors of the Egyptian Federation of Scouts in Alexandria.
• Eight copies of photographs portraying Jews in Egypt.
• Three manuscripts: two manuscripts of supplications and piyyutim [Oriental script, 20th century]; manuscript of Megillat Shir HaShirim, with Targum and Rashi [Yemen, 19th/20th century].
• Other leaves and items.
The collection also includes various items related to Dr. Rudolf Sachs, staff member in the Cairo Jewish hospital, including a certificate granted to Dr. Rudolf Sachs by the Ashkenazi community in Cairo, in appreciation for his contribution to the reconstruction of their synagogue. Cairo, 1944.
Over 30 items. Size and condition vary.
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Manuscript, various kabbalistic prayers, handwritten by R. Yosef Adahan, author of Shufreh DeYosef. [Tétouan, Morocco, 18th/19th century].
Cursive and square Western script. The manuscript opens with the following statement: "Prayers from Shaarei Yerushalayim, I reworded them Yosef son of Machlouf ben Adahan, whoever recites them in order will merit the World to Come".
Kabbalistic prayers for the days of the week, with kabbalistic combinations and Holy names, attributed to various Torah scholars. The source of these prayers is the unpublished composition Shaarei Yerushalayim by R. Mordechai HaKohen of Jerusalem.
R. Yosef Adahan, leading Maghrebi and Moroccan Torah scholar in the 18th-19th centuries. In his old age, he immigrated to Eretz Israel, where he passed away in ca. 1846. He left behind many manuscript compositions, of which only Shufreh DeYosef was published.
[15] leaves. 15.5 cm. Fair-good condition. Stains (including dark ink stains to one page) and wear. Tears to several leaves affecting text, repaired with paper. New binding.
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Manuscript, novellae on Tractates Avodah Zara and Horayot, by an unidentified author. [Morocco, 18th/19th century]. Hitherto unprinted work.
Neat Western script. The manuscript includes novellae on Tractate Avodah Zara (up to fol. 6a; the copying ends in the middle of a section), followed by novellae on Tractate Horayot (up to fol. 8b). The heading "my master's soul" heads the last eight leaves of the novellae on Tractate Avodah Zara.
This is a copying of a composition by an unidentified author, with additions by "the writer" (supposedly the copier, also unidentified). In several places, the author mentions his own homilies and those of his father.
The novellae on Tractate Horayot contain many teachings in the name of the Marbitz (R. Mordechai Birdugo). Apparently, the author had access to his manuscript novellae. The author also cites students in his yeshiva. The novellae cited in the name of the Marbitz have been compiled from this manuscript and printed in the book Torat HaMarbitz (Ahavat Shalom, Jerusalem 2017), however, this work has not been printed in its entirety.
[50] leaves. 15 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains. Dampstains. Worming. Tears to a number of leaves. Open tears affecting text to last leaf. New binding.
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Manuscript, Emek Yehoshua on the Torah, with Asefat Chachamim, written by R. Yaakov son of Moshe Shabbat. Tagadirt, Akka (Morocco), [1821-1823].
Illustrated title page and colophon (at the end of Emek Yehoshua), with stylized signatures of the scribe.
The manuscript is composed of two parts: Part I comprises selected passages from the book Emek Yehoshua on the Torah. The book was printed in Frankfurt an der Oder, 1699. Some of the passages were reworded. Part II, titled Asefat Chachamim, is a collection of Torah novellae. It was presumably copied from an Ashkenazi manuscript, since it includes novellae of R. Avraham Broda, R. David Oppenheim, R. Yitzchak Rabbi of Lissa, R. Meir Frenkel, R. Naftali Hertz Rabbi of Lviv, R. Avraham Rabbi of Zhovkva and others. Possibly, these novellae or some of them were never printed.
Novellae by another hand were added to the final leaves, some signed: "Avraham son of Moshe Shabbat". Several novellae appear on the leaf following the title page, with the (calligraphic) signatures of R. Yaakov son of Moshe Shabbat.
Later ownership inscriptions of "Avraham Chaim Eliyahu Alfasi".
[2], 1-10, 15-85, [24] leaves. Lacking leaves 11-14. 16 cm. Stains. Wear and tears. Tears to title page repaired with paper. Worming, affecting text (primarily to the final leaves). Worn, damaged, old binding.
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Notebook of contracts of R. Rafael Ibn Tzur – rental contracts and loan agreements drawn up in Fez in 1864-1867, with the signatures of rabbis and prominent members of the Fez community.
Handwritten notebook of contracts, including rental contracts for various property owned by R. Rafael Ibn Tzur, and promissory notes for money which R. Rafael Ibn Tzur lent to various people.
The contracts bear the calligraphic signatures of over thirty witnesses, who were rabbis and prominent members of the Fez community. Most of the contracts bear the signature of R. Aharon HaKohen, scribe in Fez who presumably wrote most of these contracts. For full list of signatories, see Hebrew description.
R. Rafael son of R. Shlomo ibn Tzur (1830-1917), rabbi of Fez, Torah scholar and author. He was also a wealthy property owner, as arises from the present notebook.
[53] leaves, including 45 written leaves. 12.5 cm. Good condition. Stains. Worming. Tears. Original leather binding, torn and damaged.
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Manuscript, songs for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, verses for the Shofar blowing, and more. [Fez, Morocco, 19th century].
Manuscript by R. Shlomo Ibn Tzur (1805-1843), a Fez Torah scholar, son of R. Rafael Ibn Tzur and grandson of R. Yaakov Ibn Tzur – the Yaavetz.
The manuscript contains various songs to be recited at different times on Rosh Hashanah, as well as verses to be recited before the shofar blowing, verses for Yom Kippur night, and various confessions for Yom Kippur.
Inscription on p. 9b: "I will begin writing the [Yom Kippur] Avodah service... corrected from the manuscript of my grandfather the Yaavetz".
[16] leaves (and two additional blank leaves). 15.5 cm. Fair condition. Stains. Worming, affecting text. Card binding, damaged, lacking back board.
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Manuscript, piyyutim for Shabbat, festivals and various occasions. [Morocco, ca. 19th century].
Complete manuscript, compilation of various piyyutim, mostly from Moroccan rabbis (including: R. Yaakov Berdugo, R. Shalom ibn Tzur, R. David Ben Hassin, R. Moshe Attia, R. Shlomo Haliwa, R. Amram Elbaz, and others). Most the piyyutim are in Hebrew, a few are in Judeo-Arabic.
Colophon of the writer, Yehoshua Elkoubi, on final page.
[78] leaves. 17 cm. Good condition. Stains. Tears to two leaves, slightly affecting text. New binding.
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