Mili DeBrachoth – Yad Ya’akov [Talmudic novellae]

AUCTION 66 | Thursday, November 19th, 2015 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Ceremonial Objects and Graphic Art

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ELIYAKIM, YECHIEL YA’AKOV BEN ISRAEL CHAIM JOSEPH.

Mili DeBrachoth – Yad Ya’akov [Talmudic novellae]

Manuscript in Hebrew, written in a cursive Sephardic hand on paper. ff. 95. Light stained, few tears, some portions removed. Contemporary blind-tooled calf, rubbed. 4to.

Constantinople: 18th-19th century

Est: $1,500 - $2,500

PRICE REALIZED $5,000

Autograph(?) of an original work to Tractate Berachoth, as well as to Orach Chaim and Even Ha’ezer. The second part of the manuscript comprises a commentary to Maimonides’s Mishnah Torah and concludes with laws for the Passover Seder. This work does not appear to have been published. The author served as a Rabbinic judge in Constantinople towards the end of the 18th century and the beginning of the 19th century. His introduction appears in Shailoth U’Teshuvoth HaGeonim (Salonika 1802).