Volume with large collection of leaves and gatherings by many writers – letters, halachic rulings and responsa, sermons, novellae, piyyutim, prayers, kabbalah, cures, Segulot, amulets and more. [Morocco, ca. 17th-19th centuries].

Thick volume, with leaves and gatherings on various topics and by different writers collected and bound together, including autographs of generations of the Abensour rabbinic family and other Moroccan rabbis (some handwritings have not been identified, and the manuscript is in need of basic research).

The contents of the manuscript include:

Leaves 1-4: Halachic ruling by R. Baruch Toledano to Fez.

P. 8b: Sermon for Shabbat HaChodesh mentioning Yaakov Adahan.

P. 9b: Shabbat sermon for passing of R. Shaul son of Matitiah Serero (the third; here his death is dated 23rd Cheshvan 1804; according to Malchei Rabanan leaf 111 he passed away in 1806).

P. 112a: Sermon for the passing of R. Masud ibn Nachmias "my teacher who taught me the Written Torah" (he was eulogized by R. Eliyahu HaTzarfati; see: Naar Bocheh, Jerusalem 2000, sermon 39).

P. 125a: "In the year 5343 from Creation [1583] they shortened the month of October and made it 28 days… and in 5460 from Creation [1600] they removed one day from February…".

P. 129a: Copying of a letter from R. Immanuel Mansano copied from a letter of R. Shimon ibn Saadon.

P. 148a: Sermon for the passing of Yosef ibn Saadon, Cheshvan 1815.

P. 150b: Sermon for passing of Shimon ibn Saadon and his father R. Yosef who passed away within 15 days of each other.

P. 168a: A miracle that occurred in Elul 1578. At end of gathering, colophon of writer (p. 170a): "Shlomo Abensour".

P. 188a: Letter to R. Moshe Kadosh, by R. Shmuel Abensour, 1815.

P. 197a: Letter to R. Refael Abensour, signed by R. Petachiah Berdugo.

P. 220a: Citation of emissary R. Shlomo Amar of Tiberias.

P. 230b: Inscription handwritten and signed by R. Shlomo Eliyahu Abensour, in his youth, during the lifetime of his father.

P. 231b: Letter signed by R. Yehudah ibn Attar (the second) and R. Chaim David [Serero], to R. Refael Berdugo.

P. 236b: Signed by R. Yaakov Abensour the second.

1-29, 48-239 leaves (late pencil foliation). Approx. 16 cm (includes leaves of various sizes). Good-fair condition. Stains, wear, tears and worming, affecting text of several leaves. Detached leaves and gatherings. New binding, with slipcase.

Provenance:

1. Abensour Family Collection, Fez, Morocco.

2. Victor Klagsbald Collection – Morocco, no. 30.

Reference: Victor Klagsbald, Catalogue des manuscrits marocains de la collection Klagsbald, Paris, 1980, pp. 64-66.