Avraham ben HaGr’a. Rav Pe’alim.

(ELIJAH, GAON OF VILNA).

Vilna

18th century

Autograph Manuscript in Hebrew, written in cursive Aschkenazic hand on paper.

AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT of an original work by R. Avraham, son of the Vilna Gaon. In this work the author records and expounds over all known and unknown midrashic materials. Tthe first bibliographical work of its type, it was first published by Shimon Chones in Warsaw 1894 from this very manuscript. Indeed this volume includes an introduction by Chones and his notes throughout. R. Abraham (1750-1808) son of R. Elijah, Gaon of Vilna (1720-97), besides preserving teachings heard from his father, was a distinguished scholar in his own right. Recently come to light are his glosses to the Babylonian Talmud. See S. Gottesman, “Hagahoth u-bi’urim la-Shas le-R. Avraham ben ha-GRA” in: Yeshurun, Vol. IV (1998) pp. 124-221; and see JE, Vol. I, pp. 106-7.