Diverse Collection of Manuscripts, Handwritten and Printed Leaves, Fragments of Ancient Printings

Diverse Collection of Manuscripts, Handwritten and Printed Leaves, Fragments of Ancient Printings
Diverse collection of manuscripts, and fragments of manuscripts and printed matter.
The collection is composed of:
Various manuscripts in Oriental writing [Oriental countries, most are from Baghdad and India]: · Manuscript, songs for Hakafot and for Simchat Torah. · Manuscript, Haftarah of Tisha B'Av, with Serach [Judeo-Arabic transaction]. · Manuscript, Passover Haggadah, with Serach [Judeo-Arabic translation]. · Manuscript, Shabbat songs with Birkat HaMazon. · Manuscript, songs for various occasions [Shabbat HaGadol, Chanuka, etc.]. · Manuscript, refrains for those who receive an aliya on Simchat Torah. · Manuscript, poem for Purim [damaged and lacking]. On the first leaf is a dedication by the writer: "Gift for the dear…wife of the influential Ezra Meir son of R. Avraham Shalom Saliman Shimon in the city of Singapore". · Several handwritten leaves, commentary on the Book of Tehillim (Chapters 17-18). · More manuscript or sections of manuscripts.
· Binding of a book, with manuscript fragments, customs of shechita and terefot according to the Marrakesh tradition (Sassoon manuscript, Ohel David, p. 753), and more unidentified fragments.
· [7] leaves from the Book of Kohelet with Rashi commentary. Unidentified printing press.
· Various printed leaves, some fragments of ancient printed leaves removed from the "Binding Geniza", a number of proclamations related to the Babylonian community in Jerusalem, and more.
Approximately 50 items. Size and condition vary.
Provenance: Sassoon family collection.