Poems and Some Notes on Bible and Talmud, [North Africa, 18th century]

Fols. 1r-15v: Alphabetical index of poems.

Fol. 15v: Accounts.

Fols. 20r-51r: Poems.

Fols. 52r-66r: Notes, with frequent corrections.

Fols. 57v, 59v, 64v: Abraham Lulo (?) is mentioned.

Sotheby’s is grateful to Menahem Schmelzer z”l and Benjamin Richler for cataloguing this manuscript.

Provenance

Moshe Duayb (owner’s inscription, fol. 10r) — Solomon Halberstam (shelf no. 394)

Physical Description

65 leaves on paper (5 blank), 7 ¼ x 5 3/8 inches; 185 x 137 mm, written in Maghrebi square and cursive script in brown ink, original foliation in ink in second half of manuscript, modern foliation in pencil throughout; half of initial blank torn away, leaf after fol. 13 apparently excised, fore-edges of fols. 61-64 frayed with repairs to final two leaves. Black library buckram.

Literature

Hirschfeld (ms. no. 237)