Zohar on the Torah – Bereshit, Shemot, Vayikra, Bamidbar and Devarim. Slavita: R. Shmuel Avraham Shapira, son of the rabbi of Slavita, [1824]. Three-volume set.
Many stamps of "Chavura Mishnayot VeKinyan Sefarim of the Kosov Kloiz, Sighet".
Signatures, stamps and handwritten inscriptions on title pages and several other leaves.
Three volumes. Vol. I: [4], 252, 2-17 leaves. Vol. II: [1], 278 leaves. Vol. III: 3-115, [1], 117-299 leaves. Lacking leaves 1-2 and 300-309 of vol. III. High-quality, bluish paper. 19.5-20 cm. Condition varies. First two volumes overall in good-fair condition. Stains, dampstains. Worming, mostly not affecting text significantly. Vol. III in fair to fair-poor condition. Stains, some dark. Worming to many leaves, occasionally significant, extensively affecting text. Detached gatherings. Censors' stamps and inscriptions on title pages. Old bindings with leather spines. Damage and worming to all three bindings.

Manuscript – Kevod Elim, novellae on Tractate Shabbat and on various topics in Halacha and Aggada, handwritten and signed by the author R. Michael Dov Weingott Rabbi of Piotrków, Dobrzyń and Łowicz. [Częstochowa and Piotrków Kujawski, Poland, 1848-1856].
Handwritten by the author, with many emendations, glosses, additions and deletions.
This manuscript contains novellae on Tractate Shabbat and other tractates, and on many and varied topics in Halacha and Aggada. Includes homilies and correspondence with leading Polish Torah scholars of the author's times.
The front endpaper states: "Kevod Elim, Part I" - "Michael Dov son of R. Yissachar". The same page also contains an index arranged in the order of the Talmudic tractates and parts of the Shulchan Aruch, with reference to the leaves of the manuscript containing novellae on that tractate or part of Shulchan Aruch. On verso of this leaf, a section of the preface to the book, opening with the words: "So says the author". The preface is not complete.
Large parts of this composition were never published. Some sections serve as a preliminary version of the author's novellae published in his book Agudot Ezov Midbari (Piotrków 1879), mostly concentrated in the first 26 leaves of this manuscript, which comprise a preliminary version of the novellae pertaining to Tractate Shabbat, ff. 130-136 (on the topic of circumcision on Shabbat).
The manuscript contains many novellae which the author heard from leading Polish Torah scholars of that time, including R. Eliyahu Ragoler Rabbi of Kalish; R. Meir Auerbach Rabbi of Koil, author of Imrei Bina and later one of the leading rabbis of Jerusalem; R. Yosef Yoske Shapiro Rabbi of Lesla; R. Moshe Yehuda Leib Silberberg Rabbi of Lask and Kutno, author of Zayit Raanan; R. Shlomo Leib Morgenstern Rabbi of Lunshitz, author of Minchat HaBoker; and others.
In many instances, the author quotes novellae from his father R. Yissachar Weingott Rabbi of Częstochowa, author of Pitchei She'arim. His father is sometimes mentioned with the blessing for the living, and sometimes as having passed away. R. Yissachar passed away in Elul 1852.
R. Michael Dov Weingott (1819-1887), a leading Polish Torah scholar in his times, from a distinguished rabbinic family in Poland, son of R. Yissachar Weingott author of Pitchei She'arim. He was the close disciple of R. Eliyahu Ragoler Rabbi of Kalish. He served as rabbi of Piotrków Kujawski, Dobrzyń and Łowicz. He authored Agudot Ezov Midbari (Piotrków 1879) – responsa on all four parts of Shulchan Aruch, and novellae on Tractates Shabbat and Eruvin. He corresponded extensively with the leading Torah scholars of his generation, including his colleague R. Meir Auerbach, author of Imrei Bina. He copied some of this correspondence in this manuscript. In his preface to Agudot Ezov Midbari, he mentions this composition: "I chose responsum novellae and halachic analyses following the order of the parts of Shulchan Aruch, and novellae on Tractate Shabbat, Chapter R. Eliezer DeMila, which G-d granted me when studying in 1845 and 1846, following the urging of my late father, and I organized them in 1850…". As mentioned, some of this manuscript is a preliminary version of the printed edition.
The places of writing mentioned in the manuscript are Częstochowa and Piotrków. On p. 12a, he writes: "When I came here to Częstochowa, I saw that the mohelim practice…", and p. 46a contains a transcript of a responsum sent to him, in which he is addressed as rabbi of Piotrków.
The dates mentioned in the manuscript are 1848 (p. 68a), 1849 (p. 46a) and 1856 (p. 91a). A marginal note on p. 50a reads: "That which I innovated in 1838 from mid-Sivan, until the summer of 1839".
Two additional leaves handwritten by the author were found between the pages of the manuscript.
[1], 111 leaves (approx. 220 written pages). 30.5 cm. Good condition. Stains and wear. Worming. Wax stains on p. 32a. Original binding.

Two catalogs of Hebrew manuscripts in Austria by Arthur Zacharias Schwarz. 1925 and 1931. German and Hebrew. Inscribed by the author on endpapers.
1. Die hebräischen Handschriften der Nationalbibliothek
in Wien [The Hebrew Manuscripts of the National Library in Vienna]. Vienna, Prague and Leipzig: Strache, 1925.
Accompanied by nine facsimile prints, two of them in color (mounted on plates).
XX, 272 pp, [2] leaves + IX plates, approx. 40 cm.
2. Die hebräischen Handschriften in Österreich, ausserhalb der Nationalbibliothek in Wien, Teil I: Bibel-Kabbala [The Hebrew Manuscripts of Austria, Except those in the National Library of Vienna, Part I (of four): Bibles and Kabbalah]. Leipzig: Karl W. Hiersemann, 1931.
VII, [1], 209, [2] pp, 39 cm.
The endpapers of both books are inscribed by the author (signed inscriptions from the years of printing).
Overall good condition. Minor blemishes. Library copies, marked accordingly. Stains to first catalog and tears to two prints. Bindings slightly worn and scuffed.