Exceptional! Otzrot Chaim, scribe’s manuscript, 1711. Copy owned by a disciple of the Chatam Sofer, Rabbi Yitzhak ...

Exceptional! Otzrot Chaim, scribe’s manuscript, 1711. Copy owned by a disciple of the Chatam Sofer, Rabbi Yitzhak Banhader, with important amulets!
Otzrot Chaim in magnificent Ashkenazi script. Early 18th century. “Copied by Yehoshua, the son of Yechiel Michel, a Torah scribe involved in the holy work of the Havura Kadisha of undertakers in the community of Amsterdam. Nisan 1711.” [Signature attributed to the leader of the synagogue services and Torah reader, the Chatam Sofer. There are also several sections of leaves of talismans that were in the book, in an unidentified rabbinic script.

An amazing and noteworthy item, because this is evidence from another source, that among the books of the Chatam Sofer there was a manuscript with glosses by Ramaz (see Kedem Catalog No. 53, item 49). This is based on a notation on a page that was apparently used as a flyleaf for a manuscript and the Chatam Sofer wrote “Otzrot Chaim by the Ari z”l, with glosses by Ramaz at the end.”

There is also an unidentified signature, “Moshe….” on the flyleaf.

This manuscript is the handiwork of a skilled scribe, from Otzrot Chaim, with detailed diagrams of Seder HaHa’atzalah. The manuscript includes glosses by Ramaz – Rabbi Zacuta, the greatest Italian sage of his generation. The glosses are annotated as “the voice of Ramaz.” Also glosses by Rabbi Natan Shapira, the renowned Jerusalem kabbalist, author of Matzat Shimurim and other compositions.

With ownership signature: Itzik Banhard, the Gaon Rabbi Yitzhak Banhader, one of the elders of the Pressburg yeshiva, who led synagogue services and read the Torah in the Chatam Sofer’s congregation.