Manuscript, Shorashei HaShemot, by R. Moshe Zacuto – segulot, amulets and hashbaot. [Sephardic lands, 19th century].
Oriental script, with kabbalistic illustrations and diagrams.
Shorashei HaShemot is a comprehensive work on the Holy Names, with a detailed description of their functions and use in hashbaot and amulets. The work is formatted as an alphabetical encyclopedic lexicon, and includes thousands of Holy Names and kabbalistic name combinations, as well as much practical kabbalah.
The manuscript opens with various selections on practical kabbalah.
Ownership inscriptions and glosses in several places.

[91] leaves. 29.5 cm. Fair–good condition. Stains, including dark stains (several leaves difficult to decipher due to writing showing through from verso). Wear. Tears and open tears (including large tears) to several leaves, due to ink erosion, affecting text. New binding.

See:
• Windows on Jewish Worlds. Essays in Honor of William Gross. Edited by Shalom Sabar, Emile Schrijver and Falk Wiesemann. Zutphen, Walburg Pers, 2019, p. 183–184.
Provenance: The Gross Family Collection, Tel Aviv, MO.011.085.

Manuscript, Perush Divrei HaSaba – copying from the book Or Yakar by R. Moshe Cordovero – the Remak. [Yemen, 1706].
Neat Yemenite script, in two columns.
Title page dated 1706. Ownership inscription (unsigned) at the foot of the title page, dated 1707.
Brief marginal glosses and notes in some places, by various writers (ca. 18th century).
Or Yakar is commentary to the Zohar of exceptionally wide scope, by R. Moshe Cordovero. It remained in manuscript form throughout the generations, and was only published in 1962–2009, in dozens of volumes. The commentary to Divrei HaSaba in Parashat Mishpatim was published in vol. XXI (1991), with minor textual variations compared to the present manuscript. The manuscript ends in the middle of the final section (17, p. 77), and is presumably lacking one or two leaves.

76 leaves. 21 cm. Good condition. Worming, with some damage to text. Tears and minor open tears, primarily marginal, with slight damage to text on one leaf. Inscriptions. New binding, with worming.

Provenance: The Gross Family Collection, Tel Aviv, YM.011.006.

Manuscript, Rechev Elohim, kabbalistic work on the Hishtalshelut HaOlamot, by R. Yitzchak Wanneh. [Yemen, 19th century].
Neat Yemenite script. Fine kabbalistic illustrations and diagrams.
Selections on the Torah and on various topics at the beginning and end of the manuscript.
Rechev Elohim was copied over the years in various manuscripts, and was only first printed in 1992 by R. Yizchak Ratzabi. The present manuscript comprises most of the work, and is slightly lacking at the beginning. This manuscript was in the possession of the editor, who used it to produce the printed version (signature of R. Ratzabi in pen on p. [48]).

[70] pages. 21.5 cm. Good–fair condition. Stains, including dark stains. Worming. Minor marginal tears to some leaves, affecting text, repaired in part with tape. Inscriptions. New binding.

Exhibition:
• The Yemenites: two thousand years of Jewish culture, exhibition catalogue, Ester Muchawsky–Schnapper. Jerusalem, Israel Museum, 2000, p. 163.
Provenance: The Gross Family Collection, Tel Aviv, YM.011.035.

Manuscript, Otzrot Zahav – Passover Haggadah and Tikkun for festivals with the Etz Chaim commentary by the Maharitz (R. Yichye Tzalach), selections from Siddur Kavanot HaRashash and other works, scribed by R. Yosef Tzefirah. Tan'am (Yemen), 1882.
Neat Yemenite script. Title page illustrated and decorated in red ink. Many decorations in red ink throughout the manuscript, to initial words and headings.
The title page states that the manuscript was scribed in 1882 – the year of the great E'eleh BeTamar immigration to Eretz Israel.
The manuscript comprises several works, to which the scribe gave the general title of Otzrot Zahav. See Hebrew description for list of contents.
The scribe's name appears on the final page: "Yosef son of Sa'id son of Yosef HaPartzi" [=Tzefirah]. Several stamps of the writer throughout: "Yosef son of Saadiah Tzefirah, in Jerusalem".
The writer, R. Yosef son of R. Saadiah HaPartzi–Tzefirah, a Yemenite Torah scholar in the late 19th century. Immigrated to Jerusalem, where he was a sought–after sofer. Published his father's book Kesef Tzaruf.

[1], 2–62, 64–74, 76–103, 105–238 leaves. 18.5 cm. High–quality paper; several leaves with papermaker's mark (embossed). Fair–good condition. Stains, including dampstains. Worming, slightly affecting text. Minor tears, slightly affecting edge of text, repaired in part with paper. Stamps. New leather binding, with leather closures.

Ownership inscription on verso of title page. At the foot of p. 2a, ownership inscription in Judeo–Arabic (of the writer's son?).

The present manuscript is documented by Gavra in Encyclopedia L'Chachmei Teiman, I, p. 535.
Exhibition:
• Jüdische Lebenswelten, Katalog, edited by Andreas Nachama and Gereon Sievernich. Berlin, 1991, p. 241, no. 10/59.
Provenance: The Gross Family Collection, Tel Aviv, YM.011.018.

Manuscript, anthology of works on practical kabbalah and medicine. [Yemen, 18th/19th century].
Includes several works, mostly in Judeo–Arabic:
• Work on practical kabbalah, including a comprehensive anthology of amulets, segulot and hashbaot. With tables, kabbalistic illustrations, Angelic script, and more.
• Medical work by R. Zechariah the physician (chapters 29 and 30 of part III were not copied, as well as from the middle of chapter 35 to the middle of chapter 37. Blank leaves were left instead).
• Other works on practical kabbalah – see Hebrew description for more details.

[68] leaves. 23.5 cm. Fair–good condition. Stains, including dampstains. Worming. Marginal tears, not affecting text. Inscriptions. New binding.

Provenance: The Gross Family Collection, Tel Aviv, YM.011.080.