Bidspirit auction | (GENIZAH OF MANUSCRIPTS). Collection of

(GENIZAH OF MANUSCRIPTS). Collection of various Oriental Manuscripts written in many hands in Hebrew, Judeo-Arabic and Judeo-Persian. HEBREW MATERIALS INCLUDE: (not comprehensive): * 1- Sefer Brit Menucha, Derech Shminit. * 2- Kabbalistic Ideas from Pentateuch. Written by an Elijah Bachur. With introductory narrative concerning a woman who went to great lengths to circumcise her son. * 3- Kabbalistic Kavanoth, Seguloth and Incantations. * 4- Pocket guides to laws of ritual slaughter, Treifoth. * 5- Collection of Pizmonim for lifecycle events. Some authored by Eviathar Hazak, Zevulun Katan, Aharon Cohen. With two colored illustrations (birds and dedication). * 6- Sermon to the Haftarah of ‘Dirshu’. * 7- Avoth. Chapters 2-5 complete, 1 and 6 partial. * 8- Protective Lamnatze’ah Psalm. * 9- Commentary to verses in Proverbs, Ecclesiastes. * 10- Various prayers and Piyyutim in Hebrew, Aramiac, Judeo-Arabic. * 11- Various Kame’oth. * 12- Page with stamps of Chief Rabbis of Jerusalem’s Mughrabi (Moroccan) Kollel, R. Yissachar Azaraf (served 1886-92) and R. Moshe Malka (1892-1900). * 13- Talmudic discussion. * 14- Ketubah, Tbilisi, 1939. Two more, torn. * 15- Moreh Chataim (Tehinoth) of R. Eliezer of Worms. * 16- Biblical homilies. * 17- Plea for assistance regarding the ransoming of captives. * 18- Rambam, Laws of Sanctification of the New Moon, Chapters 2-16- (2:9-11, 3-11 complete, 12:1-12, 13:4-11, 14-15 complete, 16:1-5). with Arabic notes on first leaf. * 19- Two Autograph manuscripts signed, by Ezra Benjamin, Shadar of Jerusalem’s Beth HaYethomim Orphanage. Tehran, 1935. One letter to R. Solomon ben Israel Cohen of Tehran, the other a rabbinical certificate to Cohen, permitting only meat overseen by butchers approved by him. * 20- Seder Sefer Nitzchit shel Torateinu HaKedosha. Mulla Abraham ben Rahim Shirazi, Dayan. With approbations and signatures of Ya’akov Yosef Ya’akov and Eliyahu Yehoshua Ovadiah, Baghdad 1851. Anti-Christian Polemic arguing for the Jewish interpretation of the Bible using Biblical verses as proof-texts. JUDEO-ARABIC AND JUDEO-PERSIAN MATERIALS INCLUDE (not comprehensive): * 1- Notebook with various papers relating to marital documents and ceremonies, including one responsum. Most notable is a list of sites with appropriate phraseology for wedding certificates, mostly Iran, also Eretz Israel and Iraq (Tehran, Isfahan, Mashhad, Samarkand, Buchara, Shiraz etc). * 2- Text entitled Yosipon. * 3- Petach Eliyahu. * 4- Kabbalistic names. * 5- Licensing certificates for Ritual Slaughterers (3). * 6- Various business contracts and agreements. * 7- Lengthy book in Judeo-Persian, with numerous illustrations accompanying text. Content undetermined. Variously worn and torn. c. 250 pages. Sold not subject to return. Baghdad, Tehran, etc., 19th century.