Collection of Kabbalistic Comments, Prayers and Amulets, Manuscript on Paper [17th-18th Century]

86 [4] = 90 leaves (fols. 1v-3v, 4v, 64-66, 73-75, 78v-83r, 85v-86r are blank) in various sizes, largest being 8 3/8 x 6; 212 x 152 mm, written in various Italian cursive scripts, in brown and black ink, diagrams of Star of David (fols.5 3r-v, 76r) and chart (fol. 54v); several inner margins strengthened, a few marginal tears, bottom margin of fol. 86 extended, light soiling and staining, repair to internal tear on fol. 1 in second work. Modern half red morocco, fragments of early paper wrapper bound in.

Reuben Joseph Mondovi (owner's inscription, verso of front flyleaf, fols. 4r, 86v) ; Solomon Halberstam (shelf no. 29); Montefiore Library-their stamp on paste down free endpaper.

Hartwig Hirschfeld, Descriptive Catalogue of the Hebrew Manuscripts of the Montefiore Library, London:1904 (ms. no. 253).

Contents:
Fol. 1r: Prayer, in a Sefardi hand, eighteenth-nineteenth century; illegible signature (also on fol. 4r, 5r, 86v).  Fol. 5r: Writings of Benjamin ha-Cohen, student of Moses Zacuto.  Fols. 5r-52v: Prayerbook with Kabbalistic kavvanot, with marginal notes.  Fol. 9v: Sefer ha-Likkutim.  Fol. 10v: Tikkun zayi"n Adar, prayer by Moses ben Nahman (Nahmanides).  Fol. 12r: Prayer before delivering a sermon. Fol. 16v: Kavvanot on the daily prayers.  Fol. 52r: Kitzur kavvanot for the days of the week by Menahem Azariah da Fano.  Fols. 53r-63v: Amulets, with some diagrams; R. Yekutiel (fol. 54r), R. Isaac Tzarfati (fol. 54v), from the Ari (Isaac Luria, fol. 56v), quotes from Menahem Recanate (fol. 59v).  Fols. 67r-70v: Commentary on Zohar Deuteronomy, fol. 263.  Fols. 71r-72v: Letter by Menahem Azariah da Fano to Benjamin ha-Cohen, perhaps autograph.  Fols. 76r-78r: Amulets.  Fol. 78r: Sodot me-ha-rema"z , mysteries from R. Moses Zacuto.  Fols. 83v-84r: Rhymes on the thirteen principles of faith, by Immanuel of Rome. See Immanuel's Mahbarot, ed. D. Jarden, pp. 90-94.  Fol. 84v: Short list of books.  Fol. 85r: List of books sent to Livorno, with prices.  Fols. 87-90 [=fols. 1-4]: Fragment from the Siddur of RShSh [Rabbi Shalom Sharabi], containing the section on the thirteen attributes, with diagrams (in an eighteenth-century Sefardi hand).