Auction 27 - Books, Manuscripts and Rabbinical Letters
Shnei Eliyahu – Livorno, 1806 – Signatures and Glosses by Libyan Scholars
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Shnei Eliyahu, homiletics by Rabbi Eliyahu Yisrael. Livorno, [1806].
Ownership notations and signatures by Tripoli-Libya Torah scholars: "Chai Maimon" [apparently, Rabbi Chai Maimon II, 1838-1885, author of ‘Be'er Lachai’]; Ya'akov Rokach [1800-1891, author of ‘Kol Ya'akov’, ‘Kishurim L'Ya'akov’, ‘Sha'arei Tefillah’ etc.], Chaim Davush [1860-1934]. Dedication to Rabbi Chaim Davush etc.
Handwritten corrections and several long glosses, one signed “Eliyahu Lavi” [Rabbi Eliyahu Lavi, Rabbi of the city of Bengazi, Libya, author of “Geulat Hashem”]. In one of the glosses he writes: "It is a wonder that two prophets spoke in exactly the same style, the author and Rav HaChida in the book Simchat HaRegel as one can see…".
[4] 98 leaves (missing last index leaf). 29 cm. Good-fair condition, stains and wear, moth damage.
Ownership notations and signatures by Tripoli-Libya Torah scholars: "Chai Maimon" [apparently, Rabbi Chai Maimon II, 1838-1885, author of ‘Be'er Lachai’]; Ya'akov Rokach [1800-1891, author of ‘Kol Ya'akov’, ‘Kishurim L'Ya'akov’, ‘Sha'arei Tefillah’ etc.], Chaim Davush [1860-1934]. Dedication to Rabbi Chaim Davush etc.
Handwritten corrections and several long glosses, one signed “Eliyahu Lavi” [Rabbi Eliyahu Lavi, Rabbi of the city of Bengazi, Libya, author of “Geulat Hashem”]. In one of the glosses he writes: "It is a wonder that two prophets spoke in exactly the same style, the author and Rav HaChida in the book Simchat HaRegel as one can see…".
[4] 98 leaves (missing last index leaf). 29 cm. Good-fair condition, stains and wear, moth damage.
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