Auction 93 Part 1 - Manuscripts, Prints and Engravings, Objects and Facsimiles, from the Gross Family Collection, and Private Collections
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![Manuscript, counting of the Omer with kavanot, scribed by R. Shmuel Conqui. Gibraltar, [1807].The manuscript comprises the or](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale93/120_1.jpg "Manuscript, Counting of the Omer with Kavanot – Gibraltar, 1807 – Scri")
![Manuscript, counting of the Omer with kavanot, scribed by R. Shmuel Conqui. Gibraltar, [1807].The manuscript comprises the or](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale93/120_2.jpg "Manuscript, Counting of the Omer with Kavanot – Gibraltar, 1807 – Scri")
![Manuscript, counting of the Omer with kavanot, scribed by R. Shmuel Conqui. Gibraltar, [1807].The manuscript comprises the or](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale93/120_3.jpg "Manuscript, Counting of the Omer with Kavanot – Gibraltar, 1807 – Scri")
Manuscript, counting of the Omer with kavanot, scribed by R. Shmuel Conqui. Gibraltar, [1807].
The manuscript comprises the order of Omer counting, with kabbalistic prayers and kavanot. Includes two menorahs – menorah comprised of Ana BeKoach (p. 1a) and a LaMenatze'ach Menorah (p. 10b).
Inscription on the first endpaper, handwritten and signed by R. Shmuel Conqui, attesting that he wrote this manuscript for his father, in Gibraltar 1807. Other inscriptions.
On p. 10b, in the border of the LaMenatze'ach Menorah, R. Shmuel Conqui added his name.
On the second endpaper, calligraphic signature of R. Shmuel Benjo, who writes that he received the book from his teacher R. Shmuel Conqui in 1834. Additional inscription by him on p. 10a.
R. Shmuel Conqui, rabbi, Torah scholar and mohel in Gibraltar in the first half of the 19th century. His library comprised many volumes of rare works and manuscripts, to which he added his glosses and comments.
There is another manuscript of the counting of the Omer with kavanot scribed by R. Shmuel Conqui in 1789 (JTS Library Ms. 1123).
[2], 28 leaves. 18 cm. (On leaf [2], watermark dated 1794). Fair–good condition. Stains, including dampstains. Tears and open tears, affecting text on first and final leaf, repaired in part with paper. Inscriptions and signatures. New binding.
Provenance: The Gross Family Collection, Tel Aviv, GB.011.001.
![Manuscript, works on the laws of shechitah. [Gibraltar?, first half of 19th century].Cursive Sephardic script. The copyist wa](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale93/121_1.jpg "Manuscript, Works on the Laws of Shechitah – Gibraltar, 19th Century")
![Manuscript, works on the laws of shechitah. [Gibraltar?, first half of 19th century].Cursive Sephardic script. The copyist wa](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale93/121_2.jpg "Manuscript, Works on the Laws of Shechitah – Gibraltar, 19th Century")
Manuscript, works on the laws of shechitah. [Gibraltar?, first half of 19th century].
Cursive Sephardic script. The copyist was presumably R. Shmuel Benjo (disciple of R. Shmuel Conqui, rabbi in the Gibraltar in the first half of the 19th century – see item no. 120), who inscribed his name inside the front board.
The manuscript comprises several works on the laws of shechitah: a work by R. Refael Berdugo, with glosses by his son R. Maimon Berdugo; a ruling by R. Mordechai son of R. Yosef Berdugo; and more.
On p. 15b, illustration of a hand, with a summary of 70 types of terefot. The name of the author is inscribed in the margins: R. Yeshaya Ben Zekri (a Fes Torah scholar in the times of the Yaavetz). On the final page, illustrations of the lungs, spine and trachea.
[17] leaves. 16.5 cm. Good–fair condition. Stains. Detached leaves. Original card binding, detached.
Exhibition:
• Nicht ganz Koscher, Eisenstadt, Österreichisches Jüdisches Museum, 2000.
Provenance: The Gross Family Collection, Tel Aviv, AZ.011.005.
Manuscript, homily for Shabbat HaGadol in Judeo–Arabic, by R. Maimon Abohbot. Terceira (the Azores Islands), Rosh Chodesh Nissan 1845.
A piece of paper depicting a green lion is pasted in the center of the title page (other manuscripts by the author also feature a lion emblem).
The manuscript comprises a lengthy, seven–part homily. Another homily is bound at the end. Enclosed with the manuscript are four leaves by the author, with additional homilies.
The title page and colophon state the place, date and name of author.
R. Maimon Abohbot (ca. 1800–1875) was born in Mogador (Essaouira, Morocco). He immigrated to Terceira, where he served as rabbi, prayer leader, teacher, shochet and mohel. He scribed many manuscripts on various topics, all in Judeo–Arabic.
Terceira is an island in the Azores archipelago, North Atlantic Ocean, home to a small community of Moroccan Jews, since the 19th century. R. Abohbot's manuscripts serve as an important testimony to this almost undocumented community.
[32] leaves + [4] leaves. 21 cm. Overall good condition. Stains, including dampstains. Large open tear to title page, affecting text and border. New binding (piece of paper featuring manuscript details and lion emblem pasted on front board, presumably from original binding).
Provenance: The Gross Family Collection, Tel Aviv, AZ.011.002.
Manuscript, lexicon of rhyming poetic expressions, compiled by the Rishon LeTzion R. Chaim Nissim Abulafia. [Eretz Israel, ca. late 18th or early 19th century].
Complete work arranged in alphabetical order, comprising thousands of expressions from Torah sources ending with various rhyming sounds.
Tall, narrow format, in cursive Sephardic–Oriental script. Two columns per page. The work was compiled and scribed by R. Chaim Nissim Abulafia, as stated in the poetic preface on p. 1a.
The preface is followed by a poetic dedication handwritten and signed by R. Abulafia, to the wealthy Yitzchak Alfandari, dated Sivan 1834.
R. Chaim Nissim Abulafia (1774–1861), leading Torah scholar in Tiberias, Jerusalem and Eretz Israel. Rishon LeTzion of Jerusalem since 1855.
The recipient of the manuscript was presumably Yitzchak Refael Alfandari, gabbai of Eretz Israel in Beirut. Known as a dominant activist through whom funds were transferred to the Sephardi and Ashkenazi Kollelot in Eretz Israel.
156 leaves (begins and ends with leaves from another manuscript of the same work, reused as endpapers). 34 cm. Good condition. Stains, including large dampstains. Wear and minor tears. Large tears to a few leaves, affecting text. Original binding, damaged.
Provenance: The Gross Family Collection, Tel Aviv, EI.011.030.
![Manuscript, homiletical and kabbalistic anthology, scribed by R. Natan Rofe. [Tiberias, 20th century].Square and cursive Orie](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale93/140_1.jpg "Manuscript, Homiletical and Kabbalistic Anthology – Rabbi Natan Rofe –")
![Manuscript, homiletical and kabbalistic anthology, scribed by R. Natan Rofe. [Tiberias, 20th century].Square and cursive Orie](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale93/140_2.jpg "Manuscript, Homiletical and Kabbalistic Anthology – Rabbi Natan Rofe –")
Manuscript, homiletical and kabbalistic anthology, scribed by R. Natan Rofe. [Tiberias, 20th century].
Square and cursive Oriental script.
Inscriptions in various quills on first and final leaves. The title page states: "Homilies and halachot which I preached in various Oriental cities… 1914, Natan Rofe… Tiberias", with his calligraphic signature and stamp (in Hebrew, English and Arabic). Additional inscriptions and signatures of his on the previous page, and his stamp on final leaf.
The manuscript comprises several homilies, followed by copyings of passages from kabbalistic works such as Pardes Rimonim (with minor variations from printed version). Includes unknown kavanot.
The kabbalist R. Natan Rofe of Tiberias (d. 1968), emissary of Tiberias in Bombay, head of the Tiberias Beit Din. In his final years, he settled in Haifa, where many came to seek his blessings, advice and segulot.
[2], 4, [3]; 12, 14–94, 101–104; [5]; [4] leaves. 20 cm. Good–fair condition. Stains, including dampstains. Worming, slightly affecting text. Marginal tears and open tears to several leaves, not affecting text. New binding.
Provenance: The Gross Family Collection, Tel Aviv, EI.011.003.
![Journal handwritten by the kabbalist R. Yitzchak Kaduri. [Jerusalem, ca. 1950s].Complete notebook handwritten by R. Kaduri, i](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale93/141_1.jpg "Manuscript, Journal of the Kabbalist Rabbi Yitzchak Kaduri – Jerusalem")
![Journal handwritten by the kabbalist R. Yitzchak Kaduri. [Jerusalem, ca. 1950s].Complete notebook handwritten by R. Kaduri, i](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale93/141_2.jpg "Manuscript, Journal of the Kabbalist Rabbi Yitzchak Kaduri – Jerusalem")
![Journal handwritten by the kabbalist R. Yitzchak Kaduri. [Jerusalem, ca. 1950s].Complete notebook handwritten by R. Kaduri, i](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale93/141_3.jpg "Manuscript, Journal of the Kabbalist Rabbi Yitzchak Kaduri – Jerusalem")
Journal handwritten by the kabbalist R. Yitzchak Kaduri. [Jerusalem, ca. 1950s].
Complete notebook handwritten by R. Kaduri, in which he records the requests of the people who approached him for guidance, with their name and mother's name, the diagnosis of various problems, and the advice and amulets he dispensed. Some records include a note that the segulah was effective.
R. Yitzchak Kaduri (ca. 1899 – 2006), renowned as a foremost expert in all areas of kabbalah. Many flocked to him for his blessings, advice and amulets, since he was one of the only individuals in his times proficient in the wisdom of kabbalistic amulets.
[24] leaves. 17 cm. Good–fair condition. Stains, including dampstains. Original card wrappers, damaged.
Provenance: The Gross Family Collection, Tel Aviv, EI.011.020.