LETTERS AND POEMS BY VARIOUS SPANISH AND OTTOMAN POETS AND SCHOLARS, MANUSCRIPT ON PAPER [16th century]

137 leaves, (fols. 20v-23v, 96-97 blank), 8 x 5 7/8 inches; 204 x 148 mm,  written in black ink in a sixteenth-century Sefardi cursive script,  fols. 1r-19v and 24r-135v perhaps in a different hand, the script changes on fols. 24r-v, 86r-v, 93r-v, but still probably by the same scribe, catchwords, old foliation in Hebrew begins with fol. 26, modern foliation in pencil; wormholes affecting several words, a few leaves frayed along bottom, dampstained, fols. 18-19 repaired, library stamp in red on first leaf.  Leather spine, marbled boards; worn, gnawed along top of front cover.

Solomon Halberstam (shelf no. 243, notes on inside front cover and on margins)

Hirschfeld (ms. no. 371, detailed table of contents); Solomon Halberstam, Kohelet Shlomo, (1890), no. 243, with detailed table of contents

Contents

Fols.1r-19v: Texts by Joseph and Judah Benveniste, Judah Zarko, Joseph Taitazak, and others.

Fols. 24r-95v: Texts by Solomon Dapiera, Judah Zarko, and others; similar to Montefiore ms. 363 (Lot 267).

Fols. 98r-135v: Texts by Solomon Bonafed, Benveniste ben Labi, and others; similar to Montefiore ms. 363 (Lot 267).

Fols. 136-137: A fragment of a commentary on Genesis 41, perhaps in a different hand.

Montefiore mss. 362, 363 and 371 (Lots 266, 267, and 275) are similar in contents and in type of script.