Manuscript, anthology of piyyutim. [Morocco, 19th century].

Neat Western semi-cursive script (initial panels in square script), with decorations in several places. On last leaves, several piyyutim added in cursive script.

Includes hundreds of piyyutim, with tunes and maqams noted in Judeo-Arabic. An important anthology for study of Moroccan poetry, including piyyutim by R. Shlomo HaKohen of Marrakesh and others from the region.

[123] leaves. Approx. 16 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains, including dampstains and dark stains (fading of ink in several places). Large open tear to first leaf, affecting text (repaired with paper filling). Original leather binding, with defects.

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.

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.

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.

Manuscript, Sefer Pelaim – glosses, selections and commentaries relating to Shulchan Aruch Orach Chaim, Yoreh Deah, Even HaEzer and Choshen Mishpat, by R. Refael Meisels of Horokhiv, Rabbi of Poryck (Pavlivka), author of Tosefet Shabbat. [Russia-Poland, ca. early 1800s].

The present work includes glosses by R. Refael Meisels on the Shulchan Aruch, included in his Tosefet Shabbat. They were first printed in incomplete form in the first edition of the book, Frankfurt an der Oder, 1767. The glosses were subsequently printed in their own right under the name Sefer HaYekar, Lviv 1795, and finally printed in corrected and complete form, with subtitles (summarizing the subject of each gloss), in the second edition of Tosefet Shabbat, Zhovkva 1806 (at the beginning and end of the book). In the second edition, the publisher and author's son R. Chaim Meisels names the work Sefer Pelaim, a choice he explains in the introduction as the initials of Parparaot LeChochmah Amarim Yekarim MiPaz ("supplements to wisdom, sayings more precious than gold"), as Sefer Pelaim is a supplement to the main work, Tosefet Shabbat.

The present manuscript appears to have been copied from the Zhovkva 1806 edition of Sefer Pelaim (see enclosed material), as it also includes the subtitles appearing in this edition.

[21] leaves (written on both sides). 34 cm. Bluish paper. Fair-good condition. Stains. Wear and tears. Light worming, affecting text. New binding.