A COLLECTION OF RESPONSA AND POETRY, MANUSCRIPT ON PAPER Mordecai Samuel Ghirondi Padua, [19th century]

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Description

88 leaves (17 blank), 7 x 4 ¾ inches;178 x 122 mm, written in Italian-Sephardic script in black ink, modern foliation in pencil; overall, very bright and fresh. Marbled paper over flexible boards, manuscript paper spine label.

Provenance

Solomon Halberstam (shelf no. 288)

Literature

Hirschfeld (ms. no. 481); for Megillat Setarim, see the edition of the letters of Moses ben Maimon edited by Y. Shilat (Jerusalem, 1988), pp. 695-696

Catalogue Note

Contents

A collection of texts written and compiled by Mordecai Samuel Ghirondi.

Fols. 1r-37v: Zikhron Mordecai, responsa by Mordecai Ghirondi (Padua, 1799-1852).

Fols. 39r-57v: Megillat Setarim, a letter spuriously attributed to Moses ben Maimon.

Fols. 38r-v, 58r-88v: Poems and verses by Ghirondi, many of them dedicated to various persons.