Collection of Ancient Manuscripts from Salonika and Morocco – Most of Them from the 18th Century / Ladino Eulogy ...

Collection of Ancient Manuscripts from Salonika and Morocco – Most of Them from the 18th Century / Ladino Eulogy for the Baron Hirsch
A collection of manuscripts, parts of letters, testimonies for the Beit Din and more. Written in Hebrew and Ladino. Most of them were written in Salonika, during the 18th-19th centuries.
Among others:
Seven leaves handwritten by Rabbi Chaim Menashe (the son of Rabbi Shimon Menashe the author of 'Shem Mi'Shimon') – indices of the book 'Yarim Moshe' by the Kabbalist Rabbi Moshe Castro – Salonika, 1890.
Rabbi Chaim Menashe proofread the book by Rabbi Moshe Castro even before the book was published and his glosses were printed in the book. After the printing of the book, Rabbi Chaim Menashe wrote its indices.
These indices which are handwritten by Rabbi Chaim Menashe were never printed.
Rabbi Chaim Menashe was the scribe of the Chief Rabbi of Salonika, like his father and grandfather before him. He published his father's book "Shem Mi'Shimon".
Condition: Good. Time stains. The margins of the leaves are slightly torn.
Ladino manuscript – Eulogy for the Baron Maurice (Moshe) Hirsch – 1896
The Baron Hirsch was a Jewish-German financer and philanthropist who lived in France, England and the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He set up charitable foundations to promote Jewish education and improve the lot of oppressed European Jewry. He was the founder of the Jewish Colonization Association, which sponsored large-scale Jewish immigration to Argentina during the 19th century.
Condition: Fair. The leaf is cut into several parts at the folding marks, with no omission of text.
Part of a testimony for Hatarat Agunah – 1733 – the witness "Avraham ben Rabbi Yehuda Ha'Cohen" testifies that when he was in Constantine, in a village he stayed in, he heard from one gentile … and saw Moshe in the sea with his face turned upwards …"
Condition: Fair-Bad. Part of the leaf is missing. Moth holes. Folding marks.
Part of letter that was sent from Sidon to Salonika to Rabbi Yosef Ben Ardit – circa 1730.
Rabbi Yosef Ben Ardit was one of the scholars of Salonika. In 1792, he replaced Rabbi Shaul Ben Shlomo Ben David as Chief Rabbi of the city. In circa 1754 he immigrated to Jerusalem.
Condition: Fair. Part of the letter is missing. Moth holes. Time stains. Natural wear.
These are only examples of the large collection, which contains many other ancient documents and letters.
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Condition: varying. Some of the documents are damaged.