Auction 059 Items from the Victor (Avigdor) Klagsbald Collection: Early Printed Books, Manuscripts, Glosses and Autographs by Leading Rabbinic Figures
Jul 15, 2025
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![Manuscript, anthology of piyyutim and bakashot. [Morocco, 19th century].
Neat semi-cursive Western script, with decora](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Ol59/73_1.jpg "Manuscript – Anthology of Piyyutim and Bakashot – Morocco, 19th Centur")
![Manuscript, anthology of piyyutim and bakashot. [Morocco, 19th century].
Neat semi-cursive Western script, with decora](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Ol59/73_2.jpg "Manuscript – Anthology of Piyyutim and Bakashot – Morocco, 19th Centur")
Auction 059 Items from the Victor (Avigdor) Klagsbald Collection: Early Printed Books, Manuscripts, Glosses and Autographs by Leading Rabbinic Figures
Jul 15, 2025
Opening: $400
Sold for: $525
Including buyer's premium
Manuscript, anthology of piyyutim and bakashot. [Morocco, 19th century].
Neat semi-cursive Western script, with decorated initial panels.
Includes hundreds of piyyutim, including piyyutim by early Sephardic and Moroccan rabbis. The anthology is divided into chapters, beginning with sections called "derachim" or "ways" (begins in the middle of the sixth way, followed by succeeding numbers up to the twenty-fifth way), and afterwards "Piyyutim for the three festivals", "Piyyutim for the giving of the Torah", "Piyyutim for Sukkot", "Piyyutim for the groom and bride", "Piyyutim on the virtue of tefillin".
The Moroccan poets named as authors at the beginning of the piyyutim include: R. Yaakov Abensour, R. Shalom Abensour, R. Shlomo Abuchatzeira, R. David ibn Chasin, R. David ibn Attar, R. Yaakov Elmaliach and others.
At the end are bound later leaves (from the 20th century) with index of piyyutim in the manuscript, and a copying of several other piyyutim.
Lacking at beginning. 19-168, [16] leaves. 15.5 cm. Fair-good condition. Stains. Wear and tears to several leaves. Inkstains in several places. New binding.
Category
Moroccan Jewry – Manuscripts and Letters – The Abensour Family Collection, Fez
Catalogue
![Manuscript, piyyutim. [Meknes?, Morocco, ca. 19th century].
Western cursive script. Includes over a hundred piyyutim a](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Ol59/74_1.jpg "Manuscript, Piyyutim – Morocco, 19th Century")
![Manuscript, piyyutim. [Meknes?, Morocco, ca. 19th century].
Western cursive script. Includes over a hundred piyyutim a](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Ol59/74_2.jpg "Manuscript, Piyyutim – Morocco, 19th Century")
Auction 059 Items from the Victor (Avigdor) Klagsbald Collection: Early Printed Books, Manuscripts, Glosses and Autographs by Leading Rabbinic Figures
Jul 15, 2025
Opening: $400
Sold for: $500
Including buyer's premium
Manuscript, piyyutim. [Meknes?, Morocco, ca. 19th century].
Western cursive script. Includes over a hundred piyyutim authored by the sages of Spain and Northern Africa.
On leaf following copying of piyyutim (marked in pencil: 113), ownership inscription, partially deleted, mentioning R. Aharon[?] Assudri, and mentioning and signed by "Refael To[ledano]".
3-111, [1] leaves (and many more blank leaves). 17.5 cm. Fair-good condition. Stains, tears and wear. Two leaves torn and partly lacking, affecting text. Original leather binding, with defects.
Provenance:
1. Abensour Family Collection, Fez, Morocco.
2. Victor Klagsbald Collection – Morocco, no. 24.
Reference: Victor Klagsbald, Catalogue des manuscrits marocains de la collection Klagsbald, Paris, 1980, pp. 52-57. See this source for a list of piyyutim.
Category
Moroccan Jewry – Manuscripts and Letters – The Abensour Family Collection, Fez
Catalogue
![Manuscript, bakashot and piyyutim. [Meknes, Morocco, 19th century].
Pocket format. Cursive Western script. Throughout](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Ol59/75_10.jpg "Decorated Manuscript, Pocket Format – Bakashot and Piyyutim – Meknes,")
![Manuscript, bakashot and piyyutim. [Meknes, Morocco, 19th century].
Pocket format. Cursive Western script. Throughout](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Ol59/75_11.jpg "Decorated Manuscript, Pocket Format – Bakashot and Piyyutim – Meknes,")
![Manuscript, bakashot and piyyutim. [Meknes, Morocco, 19th century].
Pocket format. Cursive Western script. Throughout](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Ol59/75_5.jpg "Decorated Manuscript, Pocket Format – Bakashot and Piyyutim – Meknes,")
![Manuscript, bakashot and piyyutim. [Meknes, Morocco, 19th century].
Pocket format. Cursive Western script. Throughout](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Ol59/75_6.jpg "Decorated Manuscript, Pocket Format – Bakashot and Piyyutim – Meknes,")
![Manuscript, bakashot and piyyutim. [Meknes, Morocco, 19th century].
Pocket format. Cursive Western script. Throughout](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Ol59/75_7.jpg "Decorated Manuscript, Pocket Format – Bakashot and Piyyutim – Meknes,")
![Manuscript, bakashot and piyyutim. [Meknes, Morocco, 19th century].
Pocket format. Cursive Western script. Throughout](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Ol59/75_8.jpg "Decorated Manuscript, Pocket Format – Bakashot and Piyyutim – Meknes,")
![Manuscript, bakashot and piyyutim. [Meknes, Morocco, 19th century].
Pocket format. Cursive Western script. Throughout](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Ol59/75_9.jpg "Decorated Manuscript, Pocket Format – Bakashot and Piyyutim – Meknes,")
Auction 059 Items from the Victor (Avigdor) Klagsbald Collection: Early Printed Books, Manuscripts, Glosses and Autographs by Leading Rabbinic Figures
Jul 15, 2025
Opening: $400
Sold for: $1,063
Including buyer's premium
Manuscript, bakashot and piyyutim. [Meknes, Morocco, 19th century].
Pocket format. Cursive Western script. Throughout the volume, decorated initial panels and conclusions of piyyutim, in fine arabesques, in a characteristic Moroccan style. Purple ink incorporated on some pages.
On first leaf (endpaper), ownership inscription in large letters: "Refael Toledano". At top of following leaf (beginning of piyyutim), another ownership inscription: "Refael Toledano".
At end of manuscript: "Awesome prayer for salvation from the evil inclination", and "Undoing of a dream, tried and true".
On several leaves, inscriptions from a later period, including piyyutim, index, ownership inscriptions and more.
[105] leaves. Approx. 11 cm. Fair-good condition. Stains, including dampstains. Tears, defects and wear, affecting text in several places. Original leather binding, with defects.
Provenance:
1. Abensour Family Collection, Fez, Morocco.
2. Victor Klagsbald Collection – Morocco, no. 53.
Reference: Victor Klagsbald, Catalogue des manuscrits marocains de la collection Klagsbald, Paris, 1980, pp. 113-115. See this source for a list of piyyutim.
Category
Moroccan Jewry – Manuscripts and Letters – The Abensour Family Collection, Fez
Catalogue
![Manuscript, piyyutim, letters and sayings, and various selections. [Morocco (Fez?), ca. 19th century].
Western cursive](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Ol59/76_1.jpg "Manuscript – Piyyutim, Sayings and Various Selections – Morocco, 19th")
![Manuscript, piyyutim, letters and sayings, and various selections. [Morocco (Fez?), ca. 19th century].
Western cursive](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Ol59/76_2.jpg "Manuscript – Piyyutim, Sayings and Various Selections – Morocco, 19th")
![Manuscript, piyyutim, letters and sayings, and various selections. [Morocco (Fez?), ca. 19th century].
Western cursive](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Ol59/76_3.jpg "Manuscript – Piyyutim, Sayings and Various Selections – Morocco, 19th")
Auction 059 Items from the Victor (Avigdor) Klagsbald Collection: Early Printed Books, Manuscripts, Glosses and Autographs by Leading Rabbinic Figures
Jul 15, 2025
Opening: $300
Sold for: $938
Including buyer's premium
Manuscript, piyyutim, letters and sayings, and various selections. [Morocco (Fez?), ca. 19th century].
Western cursive script. At tops of pages, fine decoration.
Includes: Copying of letters from Leshon Limudim by R. Yaakov Abensour – the Yaavetz; Tractate Purim; the Last Will of Haman (copied twice); piyyutim for Purim by R. Amram Elbaz, R. Yehonatan Serero and R. Betzalel Mansano; Gedolim Maasei Hashem – on a miraculous rescue in 1732 (copied twice); Iluf Musar, a letter addressed by R. Menachem Mansano to R. Eliyahu Otmazgin; Maariv prayer for Shabbat according to the native rite; and more.
Many pen trials throughout manuscript.
[53] written leaves (and many blank leaves). Approx. 14 cm. Fair-good condition. Stains, including inkstains and dark stains. Wear and tears. Detached leaves. New binding, with slipcase.
Category
Moroccan Jewry – Manuscripts and Letters – The Abensour Family Collection, Fez
Catalogue
Auction 059 Items from the Victor (Avigdor) Klagsbald Collection: Early Printed Books, Manuscripts, Glosses and Autographs by Leading Rabbinic Figures
Jul 15, 2025
Opening: $300
Sold for: $500
Including buyer's premium
Manuscript, Kinot, haftarah for Tishah BeAv, with Judeo-Arabic translation, Qissat Asarah Harugei Malchut and Qissat Yosef. [Morocco, ca. 19th century].
Western script, by several writers. On p. 13b, signature of scribe: "Avraham Marili"; on pp. 32a and 45b signatures: "Chaim Assaraf"; and on p. 32b, signature of writer: "Chaim Wachnis".
Original leather binding, made in Morocco by R. Yosef son of R. Moshe Abuchatzeira of Fez. At front and back of binding, decoration inscribed: "This is my work, Yosef son of R. Moshe Abuchatzeira" (regarding the man and his bookbinding work, see: R. Sh. Z. Miyara, Geonei Mishpachat Abuchatzeira, I, 2014, pp. 121-123).
52 written leaves (and many blank leaves). Lacking leaves at beginning. 14.5 cm. Fair condition. Stains, tears and wear. Detached leaves. Original leather binding, with defects, partially detached.
Provenance:
1. Abensour Family Collection, Fez, Morocco.
2. Victor Klagsbald Collection – Morocco, no. 33.
Reference: Victor Klagsbald, Catalogue des manuscrits marocains de la collection Klagsbald, Paris, 1980, p. 75.
Category
Moroccan Jewry – Manuscripts and Letters – The Abensour Family Collection, Fez
Catalogue
Auction 059 Items from the Victor (Avigdor) Klagsbald Collection: Early Printed Books, Manuscripts, Glosses and Autographs by Leading Rabbinic Figures
Jul 15, 2025
Opening: $100
Sold for: $300
Including buyer's premium
Two manuscripts, fragments from two prayer books, written in North Africa:
• Manuscript booklet, part of a Yom Kippur and Rosh Hashanah machzor. [Algeria, ca. 18th century]. Western cursive script (characteristic of Algeria), including the end of Maariv for Yom Kippur and the beginning of Shacharit for Yom Kippur, with several leaves from the Rosh Hashanah prayers (bound out of order). At end of Yom Kippur Maariv prayer, colophon of author, "Meir Guedj".
[10] leaves. 25.5 cm. Good condition. Stains.
• Manuscript booklet, part of a book of bakashot and piyyutim. [Algeria?, ca. 19th century]. Includes bakashot for various occasions. On p. 2a, colophon signed by "R. Avraham Atali".
[9] leaves (one detached and torn). 31 cm. Fair condition. Stains, tears and defects.
Category
Moroccan Jewry – Manuscripts and Letters – The Abensour Family Collection, Fez
Catalogue
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