Auction 85 - Judaica: Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters, Ceremonial Art

Collection of Manuscripts and Typescripts – Rabbi Chaim Yosef Isser HaLevi Gad

Opening: $300
Sold for: $525
Including buyer's premium

Collection of manuscripts and typescripts from the estate of R. Chaim Yosef Isser HaLevi Gad – drafts of works he published.
Included: two manuscript volumes, handwritten by Rabbi Gad – selections from various works on the Torah; dozens of handwritten leaves from drafts of other works; four typescript volumes – drafts of early works published by Rabbi Gad (commentary of R. Isaiah di Trani on the Book of Yeshayahu and on Ketuvim, commentary of R. Joseph Kara on Neviim and Ketuvim); typewritten leaves; printer's sheets of the commentary of R. Isaiah di Trani on the Book of Yeshayahu; proofs for a work on Kohelet.
R. Chaim Yosef Isser HaLevi Gad (1880-1969), a Torah scholar who published numerous works of Rishonim. Born in Kovno, he immigrated to Johannesburg, South Africa, in 1913 and then to Israel in 1955.
6 volumes (two manuscripts and four typescripts) + hundreds of unbound leaves. Size and condition vary.


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Manuscripts – Ashkenazi Rabbis
Manuscripts – Ashkenazi Rabbis