Manuscript – Composition on the Torah, Novellae and Sermons by Leading Rabbis – Unknown! [Germany], the 18th Century

Manuscript – Composition on the Torah, Novellae and Sermons by Leading Rabbis – Unknown! [Germany], the 18th Century

Handwritten manuscript, novellae and sermons on the Parashot and Haftarot, Jewish holidays, Talmudic novellae and novellae on Rashi's commentary on the Torah. Throughout the manuscript, quotes from leading rabbis. The writer's autograph. [Germany], mid-18th century.

At the end of the book, the author writes "I have found written in my book Geulat Olam handwritten by me …" and elsewhere, he writes: "And now I intend to copy nice Peshatim from my book Geulat Olam which I wrote in my youth". This book, Geulat Olam, appears as a manuscript in the National Library (no. 41562). There, the date it was written is 1713. The manuscript before us was apparently written in 1771. The script and characteristics of the two manuscripts are identical.

The novella passages are numbered with letters, reaching 247 novellae, a few of them in nice, orderly scribal script, possibly by the author's son, the two types of script are integrated throughout the book. After them, 2 indices leaves (leaves 52-53). Later, a new pagination of 17 pages, novellae on Rashi's commentary. In addition, a new pagination "Compilations", 11 leaves. On the last page, the author's signature and the date: "Yeshay [Yeshaya] … (his family name is erased with ink and is difficult to decipher), 1771 – possibly, the author started writing before this year.

53 leaves written on both their sides + 17, 22 pp. 15x19cm. Good, moderate condition. Small tears in the first leaves, folds and wear. Stains. Slight damage to text. Leather binding. Detached binding and leaves.