Five Hebrew Manuscripts (all ex-library):
1) Darshan, Joseph ben Solomon, of Poznan. Yesod Yosef [tikunim for rectification of seminal emission]. Copied from first edition of Frankfurt on the Oder, 1679. [Vinograd, Frankfurt on the Oder 21]. Colophon on f.14r.: "Completed on Thursday, 24 Elul 1778, I Moshe Atoubi." ff. (14). Wanting at beginning. 25 lines per page. * With: Gerondi, Jonah. Igereth ha-Teshuvah [Epistle on Repentance]. ff. (15-25). Wanting between ff. 21-22. Colophon on f.25r.: "Li li-shemi, hakatan Yosef Azrad" [For me, the humble, Joseph Azrad]. Below that: "Zachithi zeh me-izavon he-chacham ha-niz[kar], ani ha-tza'ir Ya'akov Berdugo" [I acquired this from the estate of the aforementioned scholar, I Jacob Berdugo]. (See below.) * Anonymous. Midoth Tovoth ["Good Traits"]. ff. (26-27). All in Rashi script. Sepia on coarse paper. Later marbled boards. 8vo.
* 2) Wessely, Naphtali Herz (Hartwig). Shirei Tiphereth [Poetry] (Lemberg: Joseph Schnayder, 1844). [Vinograd, Lemberg 753]. Six parts. Part I: pp. 14, 60, (2). Part II: pp. 8, 84, (2). Part III: pp. 10, 90. Parts IV-VI supplied in manuscript. pp. 411. Contemporary marbled boards, effaced. 8vo.
* 3) Ma'aseh nora mi-leidath Rabbenu Yehoshua bin Nun [Wondrous tale of the birth of Joshua son of Nun]. Copied from a manuscript in the possession of R. Mordechai of Nadvorna, obtained from R. B[aruch] B[endit] L[ichten]s[tein] of Krasna (1857-1944). See N.Z. Friedmann, Otzar Harabanim, no. 4201. Aschkenazic cursive script. Blue pen on paper. Double-sided leaf. Tattered, missing some letters. (Hungary, nineteenth-century).
* 4) Unidentified Persian manuscript. Twentieth-century. ff. (56). 19 lines per page. ff. 32-36 slightly wormed. 4to.
* 5) Fragments of various nineteenth-century manuscripts. All in Hebrew characters. pp. (11)
Est: $800 - $1,200
R. Jacob Berdugo (1786-1843), Chief Rabbi of Meknes, Morocco, was revered for his halachic authority. His responsa, Shufrei de-Ya'akov were published in Jerusalem, 1910. See S. Vanunu, Arzei ha-Levanon (2006), Vol. II, p.1116
