Auction 85 - Judaica: Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters, Ceremonial Art
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Manuscript, Babylonian Talmud, Tractate Chullin, leaves from chapters four and eight, and entire chapter nine. [Yemen, 19th century].
Neat copying in Yemenite script of the text of the Talmud with Rashi, Tosafot, Masoret HaShas and Ein Mishpat, following the traditional layout of the printed Talmud.
Includes Tractate Chullin, folios 69-72, 117-129.
Marginal emendations (in a different hand) in several places.
Yemenite copyings of the Talmud are very rare.
69-72, 117-129 leaves (altogether 17 leaves). 26 cm. Good condition. Stains. A few tears. Worming, slightly affecting text. Some leaves detached. Without binding.
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Three manuscripts – amulets, segulot and mazalot. [Yemen, ca. 19th century].
• A volume comprising several manuscripts. Contains segulot for various matters and texts of amulets, kabbalistic illustrations and "angelic script", mazalot and tekufot, piyyutim, and more. [75] leaves.
• Manuscript, mazalot and tekufot (in Judeo-Arabic), segulot and texts of amulets. Kabbalistic illustrations and "angelic script". 40 leaves.
• Manuscript, mazalot – Judeo-Arabic. Lacking beginning and end. [12] leaves.
3 manuscripts. Approx. 11-12 cm. Condition varies (overall good-fair condition).
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Manuscript, Hoshaanot and Aramaic Targum of three megillot.[Yemen, ca. 1865].
Compilation written by several writers. Begins with Hoshana Rabbah, followed by the order of Hoshaanot for the seven days of Sukkot and piyyutim for Simchat Torah, incomplete. Further in the manuscript is an Aramaic Targum for three megillot: Shir HaShirim, Ruth and Kohelet, with its own title page.
Signatures of "the scribe Salem ibn Avraham al-Arshi" at the end of the Targum to Shir HaShirim and at the end of the Targum to Ruth. The Targum to Kohelet was written by a different scribe and ends with a colophon dating the conclusion of the work to 1865. Ownership inscriptions of "Chaim ibn Sa'id" alongside the colophon (his signature appears on the title page of the Targum of the megillot).
16; 51 pp. Approx. 17 cm. Fair condition. Stains, tears and wear. Worming affecting text on a number of leaves. Detached gatherings. Detached, damaged, old binding.
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Manuscript, prayers and various texts. [Yemen, ca. 1880-1881].
Thick volume, in Yemenite script (unskilled), partially vocalized. Contains: Commentary on Iyov (copying of the Metzudat Zion commentary); responsum by R. Yichye Tzalach, regarding Lahoh (printed in Peulat Tzaddik, Part II); glossary of Mishnaic words; laws of marriage; text on the Hebrew calendar, including Tekufot charts (from Tikkun Yissachar by R. Yissachar ibn Susan); texts pertaining to mourning; Hoshaanot; order for Simchat Torah; Passover Haggadah; Tractate Avot; Shabbat songs; order for Brit Milah (incomplete).
Several leaves from a different Yemenite manuscript, including the Passover Haggadah (incomplete) are bound at the beginning of the volume.
Inscriptions of the Awad family, 1885-1892.
[226] leaves. 17 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains, including dark stains and dampstains. Wear, tears and worming, affecting text on several leaves. Several detached leaves. Old, damaged binding.
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Two manuscripts written in Yemen:
1. Manuscript, Likutei Shoshanim. [Yemen, 19th century].
Comprises novellae on the scriptures and rabbinic literature, and Kabbalistic texts (homilies, kavanot, Holy Names and more). Written in many places: "I, the writer, have found". The writer often notes his source.
[92] leaves. Lacking several leaves from the middle of the manuscript (enclosed are several pieces of paper which seem to have been cut from the leaves of this manuscript). 17 cm. Fair-good condition. Stains and wear. Worming. Tears, including open tears, affecting text on some leaves. New binding.
2. Manuscript, Likutim on the Torah – Shemot. [Yemen, 19th century].
Selected novellae on the weekly portions of the Book of Shemot. The writer often notes his source.
Signature on the first page: "…Chaim son of Yosef Korach".
[64] leaves (some 35 written pages). 12 cm. Good condition. Stains. Old binding.
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Two manuscripts – cures, mazalot, segulot and amulets. [Yemen, ca. 19th century]. Hebrew and Judeo-Arabic.
• Manuscript comprising various segulot, texts of amulets (with kabbalistic charts and illustrations), "angelic script", mazalot, cures, and more. Neat script; some words emphasized with red ink. In the margins, segulot and amulets in a different hand. [32] leaves. 23 cm.
• [6] leaves from a manuscript, amulets and segulot, with "angelic script" and kabbalistic charts. 17 cm.
2 manuscripts. Overall good condition.
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Manuscript, Sefer HaYashar, biblical stories. [Yemen, ca. 19th century].
Complete copying of Sefer HaYashar, an anonymous work first printed in Venice in 1625, and later reprinted in many editions. The work covers biblical history from the Creation until the beginning of the book of Judges.
Alongside the main text, the scribe copied the publisher's notes printed in the Venice edition (and in the following editions). A note on p. [5b], not printed in the Venice edition, opens with "Found in the margin…".
[151] leaves. 22 cm. Fair-good condition. Stains. Extensive worming, affecting text on some leaves. Some detached leaves. Detached, damaged binding.
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Manuscript, Diwan – poems by R. Shalom Shabazi and other Yemenite poems. [Yemen, ca. 20th century].
Tall, narrow format. Yemenite script, by several writers. Manuscript includes traditional Yemenite poems and piyyutim, in Hebrew and in Judeo-Arabic. On leaves 48-57, piyyutim by R. Chaim Sinwani.
[73] leaves. 24 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains. Tears and wear. Damaged, old leather binding.
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Manuscript, Judeo-Persian lexicon of Mishnaic words. [Persia], 1915-1916.
This work, authored by R. Shlomo Ababa son of Nuriel, is known in Persia as Michlal HaMishnah. The present volume covers three orders: Zera'im, Nashim and Kodashim.
Neat Persian script; words of the Mishnah vocalized. Color illustrations and ornaments (decorative element at beginning of each tractate in Orders Nashim and Kodashim).
Orders Nashim and Kodashim written on smaller leaves.
[38] leaves. Size varies, approx. 17-19 cm. Fair-good condition. Stains and wear. Tears, affecting text in several places. New binding.
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Special Service for Passover Evening, for Jewish soldiers. Published by the Jewish War Services Committee for India, Calcutta, 1918. English.
Printed for a prayer service conducted at the Magen David synagogue in Calcutta. Includes a prayer in memory of those who fell during the war and a prayer in honor of the British royal family. On the last page – an instruction that all community members remain in their places at the end of the service until the soldiers leave the building.
[1], 22, [1] pages (including pink wrappers). Approx. 18 cm. Good condition. Minor stains.
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Manuscript, Sefer Goralot Shel Urim V'Tumim. [India, ca. 19th century].
Complete manuscript, on blue paper, in neat Oriental script. Includes many charts for performing a Goral Urim V'Tumim. The introduction states that "these are the Urim and Tumim used during the second Temple, composed by the seventy elders of the times of the King of Egypt… this book contains wonderful and great esoteric secrets".
[19], 72 pages. 16.5 cm. Good condition. Stains. New binding.
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Judeo-Arabic translation (Sharh) of the Five Books of the Torah. [Bombay, ca. 1865]. Lithographed.
Printed without a title page. Lithographed manuscript. The book is written in Oriental, semi-cursive script, with the exception of the first 17 pages, which are written in square letters.
Colophon on the last page: "Completed all the Five Books of the Torah… the scribe Yechezkel Abed Yom Tov Moshe".
136; 112; 100; 143; 115 pages. Lacking pages 113-122 from the second sequence (Shemot; originally: 122 pages. The weekly portion of Pekudei is lacking). Approx. 16 cm. Fair-good condition. Damage and large tears, affecting text on approx. five first leaves, with tape repairs. Tape repairs to several other leaves. Stains. Worming, affecting text on several leaves. Old, damaged binding.
Yaari, Hadefus HaIvri B'Artzot Hamizrach, Bombay, no. 21.
Rare. To the best of our knowledge, this book has never been offered at auction.
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