Auction 19 - Books, Manuscripts and Rabbinical Letters

Collection of Manuscripts (Hungary)

Opening: $400
Sold for: $1,188
Including buyer's premium
Large collection of various manuscripts, single leaves and pamphlets, from various authors and various periods [majority from Hungary and its surroundings. 18th-20th century].
Chidushei Sugiot and Chidushei Shas, homiletics and Chidushim on the Torah, letters and more.
Among the manuscripts: * Letter journal (written by disciple of the "Chatam Sofer" - contains copy of letter which he wrote endorsing disciple of the Chatam Sofer to the rabbinate, written just prior to the last Sukkot of his rabbi's life, 1839). * Letter from 1848 to Rabbi Moshe Shiffman Av Beit Din of Miskovice (disciple of the "Chatam Sofer"). * Title page for Chidushei Sugiot signed by Rabbi Avraham Binyamin [Revhon] Mergen, disciple of the Chatam Sofer in the Pressburg Yeshiva and Rabbi Yechezkel Panet in the Nitra Yeshiva [apparently some of the Chidushei Sugiot are in his handwriting as well]. * Chidushei Torah leaf written during the lifetime of Rabbi Ephraim Zalman Margaliot containing matters which the writer discussed with him. * Chidushei Torah on the Shas, part of a composition with a preface [written in the early 20th century by a Torah scholar who was apparently from Mukachevo]. * Additional important manuscripts which were not thoroughly examined.
Over eighty leaves, various sizes and conditions.
Manuscripts
Manuscripts