Bidspirit auction | Four Manuscripts - Oriental Countries

Four Manuscripts - Oriental Countries - Four manuscripts, Oriental countries: 1. Manuscript, piyyutim, prayers and inscriptions. Hebrew and Ladino. Cursive Oriental writing [Soletreo]. [Bayonne, France, 1897-1899]. Includes: Piyyutim in honor of ”Our Queen Victoria” from 1897; sections in Ladino signed by ”Yitzchak Ibn Sirus” of the Nefutzot Yehuda community; etc. [19]leaves. 2. Manuscript, piyyutim for Shemini Atzeret and Simchat Torah. Square Oriental writing. [19th century?]. [14] leaves. 3. Manuscript, homilies. Cursive Oriental writing. The date 1922 appears at the top of several leaves. 4. Manuscript, anthology of matrimonial laws, compiled from various sources. [North Africa, 20th century]. In two places, the writer cites his father and elsewhere ”a manuscript by his grandfather the Maharach”. In another place he writes: ”And this eases my mind about the custom in our city of Debdou to marry off their daughters when they are young”. [8] written leaves, more blank leaves. Four manuscripts, dozens of leaves. Size and condition vary.