Bidspirit auction | TOLEDANO, YA’AKOV. Drushim VeHespeidim. Manuscript

TOLEDANO, YA’AKOV. Drushim VeHespeidim. Manuscript in Hebrew, written on paper in a North African rabbinic hand, mostly in light brown ink. Opening pages with list of contents in a later hand. pp. 246. Stained and wormed in places. Modern boards. 8vo. Meknes, Morocco, 18th-century. Volume of sermons and funeral orations by Moroccan Haham, R. Ya’akov Toledano (1697-1771).  A disciple of R. Moshe Berdugo, R. Ya’akov Toledano was the Av Beth Din of Meknes for a half century. He was the leading halakhic authority in the Maghreb, and wrote extensively and eruditely in all areas of Torah.