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.
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.
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