Kuntress Atzirat HaMageifah. Hamburg, 1779. Fascinating

Kuntress Atzirat HaMageifah. Hamburg, 1779. Fascinating

"... what was will be, and there is nothing new under the sun ..."

Handwritten notebook with transcriptions of several interesting compositions, including the compilation Atzeirat HaMageifah, as well as a list of symptoms of the disease and treatment methods. The instructions and rules are authorized by the signatures (copies) of the Jewish doctors in Berlin. Rare and interesting manuscript.

Included among the instructions, as if written for our times: An important arrangement in a person's home, and a great safeguard, is to open the windows every morning and push the air outside ... certainly in places where there are many people, such as synagogues, study halls and schools.

The manuscript includes five rare and interesting compilations, following is the manuscript's content, in order:

1) Sefer Ben Sira, leaves 1-19.

2) Ma'aseh Torah - attributed to Rabbeinu HaKadosh, leaves 20-25.

3) Orchot Chaim by Rabbi Eliezer HaGadol, leaves 25-28

4) Kuntress Atzirat HaMageifah leaves 29-32, with a colophon at the end.

5) Teshuvah Nitzchit Neget HaMagzim al Odot Hadam - compilation against spreading blood libels. Leaves: 33-39. The author is 'the officer of Torah, wondrous and exalted general in Torah and Chassidut and state advocate ... Rabbi Zanvil Meinich, ztz"l, copied by his grandson Mordechai ben Michael Meinich in 1779 in the state of Bamberg.

Approximately [80] pp. 10x16 cm, beautiful script.

Fine condition. Minimal aging stains. Tear in the dedication page, without blemish to text. New binding.