Fols. 1r-13r: An unpublished treatise on customs and prayers by Baruch, the cantor of Troyes, with many glosses and additions inserted into ✃the text. Another copy, without additions,ꦗ is found in New York, JTSA, ms. Rab. 1489.

Fols. 13v-14r: Additional customs of reciting kaddish, legends about Ezra the Scri💖be, an account of three boats that brought survivors from the fall of Jerusalem to different countries in Europe and a question asked i🌼n a dream by Judah Hasid.

Fols. 17r-31v:  Al ha-Kol, ꧒laws and customs by Moses ben Shneur of Evreux, the teacher of Meir of Rothenburg. Other manuscript copies are found in Parma, Biblioteca Palatina Cod. Parm. 1902 and Cambridge, University Library Add. 3127.

Fols. 31v-32r: Commentary by Solomon ben Isaac (Rashi) on the thirteen hermeneutical rules of R.ꦿ Is꧒hmael.

Fols. 35r-41v: Sefer Barukh she-Amar. Laws of writing and preparing Torah scrolls, tefillin and mezzuzzot by Abraham ben Moses of Sonnenschein with copious glosses by Samson ben Eliezer Barukh She’amar. The text was copied only until the middle of letter “lamed” of section Tikkun Tefillin.

Fol. 42r-46v: An anonymous work on the same laws.

Fol. 47v: Essay on the four levels of prophecy.

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

Provenance

Moses ben Isaac Kohen Rapaඣ — Solomon Halberstam (shelf no. ☂366)

Physical Description

47 leaves on paper, 8 ½ x 5 ¾ in✤ches; 216 x 147 mm, lightly ruled in ink, written in sev💯eral different Ashkenazi scripts, modern foliation in pencil; dampstained along margins, several leaves loose, a few leaves at back gnawed in lower outer corner, scattered spotting, first leaf soiled, library stamp on first and last leaves. Wrappers; outer corners of back cover trimmed.

Literature

Hirschfeld (ms. no. 150); M.Z. Weisz, in ha-Goren, 7 (1908), pp. 76-111, published Al ha-Kol from a Kaufmann manuscript; see J.N. Epstein, in Sinai, 94 (1984), pp. 123-134; M. M. Meshi Zahav (Jerusalem 1972) prepared a modern, complete edition of Sefer Barukh she-Amar based 💝on this manuscript and others. This manuscript includes less glosses𝐆 than some of the others.