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Lot : 182
Sassoon Fragment Collection.
Ancient & Rare Documents from the Sassoon Library
Collection of manuscripts, documents and letters on various topics ranging from the 13th-19th centuries from: Spain, China, Egypt, Yemen and Bagdad.
All articles listed below were collected and bound together by the famed Jewish collector David Sassoon who describes this anthology in his Ohel David Catalog #604.
1) 13th-14th century handwritten leaf on parchment from Midrash Toras Kohanim on Sefer Vayikrah. The script is in Sephardic block style.
2) 16th century Mishnah Torah L’HaRambam – 4 leaves (8 sides) in Yemenite script from Sefer Nezikin, Hilchos Gezeilah va’Aveidah with page titles in large red letters.
3). Letter dated 1646, autographed by Rabbi David Gershon, Rabbi of Rashid and one of the great Egyptian Rabbis of the 17th century. The letter was dispatched to Rabbi Azarya [Zevi] and mentions “The philanthropist, the exalted…Yitzchak Luria Ashkenazi, presumably a descendant of the Arizal. This letter is incomplete and it is also cropped into the end words of each line.The verso features a handwritten title page to sefer Pnei Moshe on Yerushalmi Masechtos Brachos, Peah, and Dmai by Rabbi Moshe ben Achaviv, author of Get Pashut.
4) Summary of Chinese War in Judei-Arabic by Shlomo ben David ben Chacham Moshe. Bagdad-Indian script. [2] leaves. Blue paper. Hong Kong, 1856. (These leaves were printed in the Doresh Tov journal which appeared in Bombay presumably based on the present manuscript.)
5) 17th-century community ledgers in Hebrew and Spanish. 1 large leaf, written in four columns each column is 3315 cm, one in Hebrew the rest are in Spanish. This text references Rabbi Zerachya Guetta, one of the great 17th-century Spanish Rabbis.
Sassoon Fragment Collection.
Ancient & Rare Documents from the Sassoon Library
Collection of manuscripts, documents and letters on various topics ranging from the 13th-19th centuries from: Spain, China, Egypt, Yemen and Bagdad.
All articles listed below were collected and bound together by the famed Jewish collector David Sassoon who describes this anthology in his Ohel David Catalog #604.
1) 13th-14th century handwritten leaf on parchment from Midrash Toras Kohanim on Sefer Vayikrah. The script is in Sephardic block style.
2) 16th century Mishnah Torah L’HaRambam – 4 leaves (8 sides) in Yemenite script from Sefer Nezikin, Hilchos Gezeilah va’Aveidah with page titles in large red letters.
3). Letter dated 1646, autographed by Rabbi David Gershon, Rabbi of Rashid and one of the great Egyptian Rabbis of the 17th century. The letter was dispatched to Rabbi Azarya [Zevi] and mentions “The philanthropist, the exalted…Yitzchak Luria Ashkenazi, presumably a descendant of the Arizal. This letter is incomplete and it is also cropped into the end words of each line.
The verso features a handwritten title page to sefer Pnei Moshe on Yerushalmi Masechtos Brachos, Peah, and Dmai by Rabbi Moshe ben Achaviv, author of Get Pashut.
4) Summary of Chinese War in Judei-Arabic by Shlomo ben David ben Chacham Moshe. Bagdad-Indian script. [2] leaves. Blue paper. Hong Kong, 1856.
(These leaves were printed in the Doresh Tov journal which appeared in Bombay presumably based on the present manuscript.)
(These leaves were printed in the Doresh Tov journal which appeared in Bombay presumably based on the present manuscript.)
5) 17th-century community ledgers in Hebrew and Spanish. 1 large leaf, written in four columns each column is 3315 cm, one in Hebrew the rest are in Spanish. This text references Rabbi Zerachya Guetta, one of the great 17th-century Spanish Rabbis.
6) Sefer HaAruch. 1 leaf in Yemenite script. 16th century. 1 leaf, 2 sides 18*22 cm
7). Single leaf from a philosophical composition in Judeo-Arabic. Yemen, 16th century. 18*26 cm
8) 17th-century letter regarding the widow of a Rabbi. This letter mentions Rabbi Azaryahu Zevi. Partially torn and missing text.
9). Single leaf commentary on Tanach. Yemen, 18th century.
10) Single leaf from handwritten halachic teshuvah regarding Choshen Mishpat. 19th century.
11)Handwritten poem. The author’s name, Binyamin, appears as the acrostic. Baghdad, 19th century. [1] leaf
12). Single leaf with a short list of sefarim belonging to Chacham Yehuda Alminisi. 1792.
13) Mishnah Torah L’HaRambam. 1 leaf in Yemenite script from Hilchos Shechitah. 18th century.
14) Mishnah Torah L’HaRambam. 1 leaf in Yemenite script from Hilchos Shechitah. The margin of the page features a poem in Judeo-Arabic. 18th century.
15) Single leaf (2 sides) with commentary on prayers. Yemen, 19 th century
16) Letter in Judeo-Arabic sent to Chacham Rabbi Aharon Barzani of Kurdistan. The letter is signed by “The youth Nachuf Yosef” and “The youth Binyamin Yosef Moshe.” 1900.
21 leaves (35 sides). All manuscripts are bound together, with varying sizes and conditions (see photos).
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