Includes a question posed to the author regarding a custom of some women to sew the parchment sheets of Torah scrolls with catgut. Many pages and spaces are blank; apparently only notes or an outli... Show moreIncludes a question posed to the author regarding a custom of some women to sew the parchment sheets of Torah scrolls with catgut. Many pages and spaces are blank; apparently only notes or an outline for a fuller work. Written in author's own handwriting; Ashkenazic script; undated. 5-35 lines to a page. Show less
The beginning is missing until the middle of the laws of circumcision. Part 2 is a compilation of halakhot copied from earlier legal texts, some no longer extant. It contains Talmudic laws includin... Show moreThe beginning is missing until the middle of the laws of circumcision. Part 2 is a compilation of halakhot copied from earlier legal texts, some no longer extant. It contains Talmudic laws including those concerning marriage and damages. Three or four manuscripts of this text are believed to be extant and none is identical to the others. Aaron ben Jacob ha-Kohen of Lunel was a Provençal scholar who lived during the end of the 13th and the first half of the 14th cent. Written in Byzantine semi-cursive script in black ink on alternating quires of parchment and paper. Some damage and repairs, missing text. Vellum over tree calf marbled paper boards; rubbed. For detailed contents, see Sotheby's important Hebrew manuscripts from the Montefiore endowment, New York, October 27 & 28, 2004 (Sale no. 8040), p. 158-159. Montefiore no. 131. Previous owners: Mordecai Samuel Ghirondi; Solomon Halberstam. Show less
A book of genealogies intended to outline the historical development of the Oral Law and to establish the chronology of the sages who had transmitted it. This manuscript covers the period of the am... Show moreA book of genealogies intended to outline the historical development of the Oral Law and to establish the chronology of the sages who had transmitted it. This manuscript covers the period of the amoraim. Abraham Zacuto is renowned as an astronomer whose tables were used by Columbus. His work on genealogy has laid the foundations for scholarly research by succeeding generations. Partly in Oriental cursive script and partly in later (17th cent.) Sephardic cursive script. Brown ink. Text is incomplete; fols. 1-149 lacking; dampstaining; several leaves unbound. Binding defective. Sassoon no. 755. Previous owners: Mordechai Zachor; Shelomo ha-Kohen; David Solomon Sassoon. Show less
Written in Germany in the author's own handwriting and dated 6 Tamuz 335 [1575]. Ashkenazic script; 25 lines to a page. Includes: Mishle shivʻim ḥakhamim (leaves 83b-93), in Yiddish and Hebrew, un... Show moreWritten in Germany in the author's own handwriting and dated 6 Tamuz 335 [1575]. Ashkenazic script; 25 lines to a page. Includes: Mishle shivʻim ḥakhamim (leaves 83b-93), in Yiddish and Hebrew, undated, in Yaʻaḳov Hailbuṭ's own writing, and possibly by him. Second work includes notes added during the Nineteenth century by the Hebrew grammarian Isaac Berlin, on manuscript and on separate sheets. Leaf numbers later written in pencil; text on both sides of leaves. Show less
This manuscript is the oldest known text of the Sheʼiltot, the first work with an attribution of authorship to be composed after the redaction of the Talmud (ca. 500 C.E.). Its combination of halak... Show moreThis manuscript is the oldest known text of the Sheʼiltot, the first work with an attribution of authorship to be composed after the redaction of the Talmud (ca. 500 C.E.). Its combination of halakhic, aggadic, and ethical elements are arranged according to the weekly Torah portion as well as the portions pertaining to holidays. Sheʼiltot may be translated as "questions" or "discourses." Since much of the subject matter of the manuscript predates the final editing of the Talmud, these discourses are important in establishing accurate readings of many talmudic texts. This manuscript is crucial for the establishment of a critical edition of the Sheʼiltot. In Oriental semi-cursive script; headings in square script; numerous marginal glosses in several later hands. Scribe unknown. Ruled in hardpoint, single-column text, 27 lines; brown ink. Sassoon no. 415. Physical manuscript previously owned by: Sasson ben Mordecai Barzani of Mosul; David Solomon Sassoon. Show less
Contents: Masekhet Nazir (mi-daf 30 ṿa-elekh) -- Masekhet Soṭah. Written in France in author's own handwriting. 50 lines to a page. Ashkenazic script.
Contents: Masekhet Ḳidushin -- Masekhet Giṭin -- Masekhet Nazir. Written in France in author's own handwriting. Ashkenazic script. 45 lines to a page.
Two cycles of sermons on the Pentateuch and festivals, and on Tractate Yevamot. Written in author's own handwriting. Fifty lines to a page; Ashkenazic script. Dated: Strasbourg, 28 Shevat, 5568 [18... Show moreTwo cycles of sermons on the Pentateuch and festivals, and on Tractate Yevamot. Written in author's own handwriting. Fifty lines to a page; Ashkenazic script. Dated: Strasbourg, 28 Shevat, 5568 [1808]. Includes index. Show less
This is the only known copy of the important halakhic work, Sefer ha-ʻItim, which deals with the laws of the Sabbath and festivals. Written in Sephardic semi-cursive script in brown ink. Montefiore... Show moreThis is the only known copy of the important halakhic work, Sefer ha-ʻItim, which deals with the laws of the Sabbath and festivals. Written in Sephardic semi-cursive script in brown ink. Montefiore no. 126. Manuscript previously owned by: Israel Moses Hazzan, rabbi of Alexandria, Corfu, and Rome in 1848-1862 who added glosses; Samuel David Luzzatto, who added notes at the beginning; and Solomon Halberstam. Show less
Minutes of the meetings of Ḥevra Maḥazike Yeshivat Etz Ḥayim from its beginnings in 1886 until 1922, long after it had merged with Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary in 1896. Manuscript b... Show moreMinutes of the meetings of Ḥevra Maḥazike Yeshivat Etz Ḥayim from its beginnings in 1886 until 1922, long after it had merged with Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary in 1896. Manuscript bound in 2 volumes + 2 loose leaves. Cover title. Show less
Minutes of the meetings of Ḥevra Maḥazike Yeshivat Etz Ḥayim from its beginnings in 1886 until 1922, long after it had merged with Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary in 1896. Manuscript b... Show moreMinutes of the meetings of Ḥevra Maḥazike Yeshivat Etz Ḥayim from its beginnings in 1886 until 1922, long after it had merged with Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary in 1896. Manuscript bound in 2 volumes + 2 loose leaves. Cover title. Show less
Part 1 of ʻEzri mi-ḳodesh. The title of this work is not given in this manuscript but it appears in Avivi #147 (MS. 22), which is identified as Part 2 of ʻEzri mi-ḳodesh. Talmud commentaries, wit... Show morePart 1 of ʻEzri mi-ḳodesh. The title of this work is not given in this manuscript but it appears in Avivi #147 (MS. 22), which is identified as Part 2 of ʻEzri mi-ḳodesh. Talmud commentaries, with some rabbinic rulings by Rabbi Joseph David Sinzheim. Autograph. Show less
Commentary on the Sifre, a halakhic midrash to the books of Numbers and Deuteronomy. R. Hillel compares portions of the Sifre with parallel passages in the Talmud, translating the difficult words i... Show moreCommentary on the Sifre, a halakhic midrash to the books of Numbers and Deuteronomy. R. Hillel compares portions of the Sifre with parallel passages in the Talmud, translating the difficult words into Greek. Chapters 1-30 are missing. Hillel's commentary on chaps. 31-61 is followed by a second anonymous commentary. Written in a Byzantine semi-cursive script in brown ink; bound in beige buckram. Scribe: Mordekhai ben Yosef ben Adreʻi. ברוך רחמנא דסייע לעבידה בר אמיתיה להשלים זה הספר יום ג׳ בשבת י״א לחדש ניסן המכובד שנת השמ״ז ליצירה [1587] אני הכותב ... מרדכי בן יוסף בן אדרעי -- Colophon. Hillel ben Eliakim was a Greek Talmudic scholar best known for his commentaries on the tannaitic midrashim. This manuscript was the basis for the editio princeps of 1948. There are 4 other known extant manuscripts of Hillel's commentary on the Sifre. Physical manuscript previously owned by Malkiel; Isaac Sabani of Adrianople; Hayim ben Moshe Picciotto; David Solomon Sassoon. Show less
Part 2 of ʻEzri mi-ḳodesh. Talmud commentaries, additional rabbinic rulings, and Talmud principles. There is a marginal note on folio 13a in the handwriting of the author's son Rabbi Tsevi Benjami... Show morePart 2 of ʻEzri mi-ḳodesh. Talmud commentaries, additional rabbinic rulings, and Talmud principles. There is a marginal note on folio 13a in the handwriting of the author's son Rabbi Tsevi Benjamin Auerbach. Autograph. Show less
Unpublished; similar in concept to the Yalkut Shimoni. Probably compiled in North Africa. There are occasional explanations to the Talmudic passages quoted. Compiler and title of work unknown. Loos... Show moreUnpublished; similar in concept to the Yalkut Shimoni. Probably compiled in North Africa. There are occasional explanations to the Talmudic passages quoted. Compiler and title of work unknown. Loose notes at end of volume refer to the work as the Ramsgate Yalkut, and give a summary of an article by Samuel David Luzzatto about it. 33 lines; written in brown ink in Spanish semi-cursive script on paper with hand/star spread fingers of watermarks of Genoese type; marginal notes, some in a modern hand, written in large characters; modern foliation in pencil; catchwords; first few fols. missing; fols. 1, 93, 94, 164 repaired with some text loss; fols. 182-255 tissued; erosion caused by ink; paper and script darkened; half morocco. Montefiore no. 9. Previous owners of the original manuscript: Joseph ben Zikri, Samuel David Luzzatto, Solomon Halberstam (shelf no. 92). Show less
