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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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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Printed booklet, Seder Hanhagat Beit HaKnesset, year-round synagogue customs. Amsterdam: Yosef, Yaakov and Avraham Proops Katz, 1759. Most of text in Yiddish.
Includes 54 customs and ordinances of the Amsterdam synagogue.
Some words on title page in red ink.
9, [1] leaves. 15.5 cm. Good condition. Stains. New binding.
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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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Printed booklet, Zot Chanukat HaBayit, order of inauguration of the Ashkenazic synagogue on Uilenburg street in Amsterdam, Friday, 24th Elul 1766. Amsterdam: Yosef, Yaakov and Avraham sons of Shlomo Proops Katz, [1766].
Illustrated title frame, with angels playing trumpets. At top of title header, Star of David with emblem of the Ashkenazic community of Amsterdam.
Includes Tehillim, poems and prayer established by the head of the community, R. Shaul Lowenstam of Amsterdam. List of community officials at bottom of title page.
[4] leaves. 24.5 cm. Fair condition. Stains, including dark stains. Creases and folding marks. Tears, repaired with tape (many repairs to margins and in some places to middle of leaves, over text). Light worming. New binding.
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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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Statutes of the Gemilut Chasadim Chevra Kadisha of the Ashkenazic community in Amsterdam, comprising statutes and customs, list of members and more. Amsterdam: Yaakov Proops, [1776]. Hebrew and Yiddish (in Tzenah URenah font).
Title page illustrated with bones, skulls and undertakers' tools. Part of illustration appears later within book. All leaves have text within a printed frame.
Original leather binding, with gilt decorations, and gilt inscription of owner's name on front of binding: "F[irst] treasurer [Yocha]nan Bing", apparently the person whose name appears first on the list of treasurers printed in the book.
[1], 27 leaves. 16.5 cm. High-quality paper. Good condition. Stains. Tear to title page, affecting frame, repaired with tape to verso. Original leather binding, with gilt decorations. Defects to binding.
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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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Triumphos da Virtude, sermaõ pregado, a occasiaõ do natalicio de sua altesa serenissima Guillermo V° – Triumph of Virtue, a sermon delivered by R. David HaKohen D'Azevedo, rabbi of the Portuguese community in Amsterdam, in honor of the birthday of William V, stadtholder of the Dutch Republic and Prince of Orange-Nassau, on March 8, 1788. Portuguese and some Hebrew.
That year, during the struggle between the Patriots fighting for a democratic rule in the Netherlands and the Orangists who supported the prince's rule, the Talmud Torah community of Amsterdam declared its loyalty to the House of Orange. The prince repaid them with a visit to the Esnoga, the community's synagogue (on which occasion the present sermon was presumably delivered), and with his greetings, extended in part in Hebrew.
[2] leaves, 26 pages. Approx. 25 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains, including light dampstains. Marginal tears to several leaves, repaired with tape. Several leaves detached. Old paper binding, partially detached, with tears across spine.
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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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Printed booklet, ordinances for supervisors (mashgiachs) of cheese, enacted by R. Shaul Lowenstam in 1845, with additions and various ordinances enacted by rabbis of the Etz Chaim Beit Midrash in Amsterdam. Amsterdam: David Proops, [1846]. Yiddish (only title page printed in Hebrew).
Includes 27 ordinances for kosher supervisors of cheese, and the requirement for expertise in cheesemaking, kosher vessels and Sabbath and holiday observance.
[2], 2-11 pages. 20.5 cm. Good condition. Stains. Light wear. Early paper binding, somewhat worn.
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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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Fifteen calendars in pocket format, printed in Amsterdam in the 19th century. Amsterdam: David Proops, Hertz van Embden and partners, J.L. Joachimsthal, 1829-1885. Hebrew and Dutch.
Twelve calendars in original parchment binding, serving as a sort of closable case. Some incorporate reused parchment and paper (for endpapers).
The calendars also include illustrations of zodiacs and various notes with information relevant to the Jews of Amsterdam and the Netherlands.
15 calendars in 14 volumes. Varying size and condition.
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![Collection of handwritten leaves, various sermons and letters on Torah topics. [The Netherlands and Western Europe], ca. 1](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Ol59/28_1.jpg "Manuscripts, Sermons and Letters – The Netherlands, 1846-1860")
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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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Collection of handwritten leaves, various sermons and letters on Torah topics. [The Netherlands and Western Europe], ca. 1846-1860.
• Large double leaf (4 pages), sermon for Shavuot 1848. Western Yiddish.
• Double leaf, Torah letter addressed to R. Leizer Oppenheim of Gouda (southern Netherlands). [Name of sender torn from leaf]. Rotterdam, Adar 1846.
On verso of second letter, two handwritten pages, notes handwritten and signed by "Leizer Oppenheim".
• Another copying of the same notes, concluding with his signature: "Leizer Oppenheim, 1860".
• Leaf (2 pages) from a Torah sermon delivered on Shabbat Parashat Behar, 10th Iyar 1859.
• Leaf (2 pages), sermon for Parashat Haazinu [handwritten by the same R. Eliezer Oppenheim].
6 items (comprising approx. 13 written pages). Varying size and condition.
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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, Mishmeret HaChodesh – Tikun for Erev Rosh Chodesh, edited by R. Moshe Zacuto – the Ramaz. [Italy, ca. 18th century].
Italian cursive and square script. The manuscript is comprised of gatherings by several writers. Initial panels decorated, with additional decorations on several leaves.
Prayers, bakashot, readings, Tehillim and piyyutim, most piyyutim by R. Moshe Zacuto (Akum BeOd Lailah, Ani Mafkid Yechidati and more).
Similar to the text published by R. Moshe Zacuto in Venice, 1660, but with differences in wording and order.
On some leaves, corrections of text, glosses and additions in margins.
On leaf 47: Prayer for drought.
49 leaves (late pencil foliation; first and last leaf blank). Approx. 18 cm. Fair-good condition. Stains, including many dampstains and dark stains. Wear and tears to margins. New binding.
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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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Collection of handwritten leaves and letters, Italy.
See Hebrew description for a list of contents.
8 items. Varying size. Overall good condition.
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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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Collection of handwritten documents, booklets and papers from the archive of the Jewish community of Ivrea in the Piedmont region of northwestern Italy. 18th-19th centuries. Hebrew and Italian.
See Hebrew description for a list of documents.
Varying size and condition. Overall good to fair condition.
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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, Mohel journal, with order of circumcision – prayers and piyyutim for circumcision and Birkat HaMazon. [Italy, early 19th century]; bound with: Sod Hashem, halachot, customs and prayers for circumcision, with Sharvit HaZahav commentary, by R. David of Lida. Mantua: Refael Chaim of Italy, [1743].
Prayers and piyyutim section in Italian square script, with one page in Italian cursive script. Instructions and additions in a later hand, in Hebrew and Italian.
The manuscript and printed book are bound together in an elegant leather binding. Before the manuscript are bound many blank leaves for inscriptions of circumcisions by mohel. On first pages, mohel journal – where the owner documented circumcisions he performed from 1869-1880 in Moncalvo and Mondovì.
Approx. 15 handwritten leaves (and many blank leaves) + Sod Hashem: 27, [1] leaves. 15 cm. Fair-good condition. Stains, including many dark stains. Wear and tears. Detached leaves. Original leather binding, with defects.
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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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Four printed booklets, bound together (with wide margins), with ordinances of the Jewish community of Mantua:
1. Seder HaHaarachah, anthology of ordinances of the communal fund and taxes for the years 1723-1726. Mantua, 1722. Lacking 4 leaves.
2. Seder HaHaarachah. Mantua, 1749.
3. Seder HaHaarachah. Mantua, 1752. Lacking 4 leaves.
4. Seder HaHaarachah. Mantua, 1734.
Seder HaHaarachah was the name of the tax ordinances published periodically between the late 16th and late 18th centuries in Mantua, generally for periods of three years. They serve as a valuable historical source for community life in the 17th and 18th centuries, and contain many details relating to community members' vocations.
Four booklets in one volume. First booklet: 4 leaves. Lacking leaves 5-8. Second booklet: 8 leaves. Third booklet: 4 leaves. Lacking leaves 5-8. Fourth booklet: 8 leaves. 27 cm. Wide margins. Varying condition, good to fair. Stains. Many stains and wear to several leaves. Marginal tears and open tears to several leaves, partially repaired with paper. Old fabric binding, with defects and tears.
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