Kedem Auctions Ltd.: Important Hebrew Manuscripts and Books from the Victor (Avigdor) Klagsbald Collection, 100, Jerusalem

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
January 21, 2025 - January 21, 2025
Page Size: 197 items in 8 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
4

Early Decorated Parchment Ketubah -- Ferrara, 1656 -- Of the Earliest Documented Ketubot from Ferrara -- Reused as Binding / Fragment of Decorated Venetian Ketubah -- Signatures of Ferrara Rabbis

Ferrara 1656 USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 3,750.00
5

Seder Tikunei Shabbat by the Arizal -- Illuminated Parchment Manuscript -- By the Scribe and Illustrator Meshulam Simmel of Polna -- Vienna, 1714

Vienna 1714 USD 50,000.00 - 80,000.00 USD 87,500.00
6

Illuminated Perek Shira -- Miniature Parchment Manuscript -- Ca. 1720 -- Attributed to Meshulam Simmel of Polna

Ca. 1720 USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 USD 18,750.00
7

Passover Haggadah -- Parchment Manuscript, Illuminated in Color by the Scribe Abraham of Ihringen -- Breisach am Rhein, Near Alsace, 1740

Breisach am Rhein, Near Alsace 1740 USD 80,000.00 - 100,000.00 USD 75,000.00
8

Passover Haggadah -- Parchment Manuscript with Unique Illuminations -- Niedernai (Niederehnheim), Alsace, 1759

Niedernai (Niederehnheim), Alsace 1759 USD 80,000.00 - 150,000.00 USD 68,750.00
9

Parchment Leaf from Bereshit -- Sephardic Lands, 12th Century

Sephardic Lands 12th Century USD 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 3,750.00
10

Parchment Manuscript, Ashkenazic-Rite Siddur -- 14th/15th Century

14th/15th Century USD 30,000.00 - 40,000.00 USD 52,500.00
11

Manuscript -- Moshav Zekenim -- Tosafists' Commentary on the Torah -- Crotone (Italy), 1473 -- Ms. Sassoon 409

Crotone (Italy) 1473 USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 USD 50,000.00
12

Manuscript, Sefer HaPeliah -- Tripoli, Lebanon, 1497

Tripoli, Lebanon 1497 USD 40,000.00 - 50,000.00 USD 47,500.00
13

Tikun Ezra -- Parchment Manuscript -- Torah Readings and Prayers for the Synagogue of Candia, Crete, 1636

Crete 1636 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 18,750.00
14

Manuscript -- Romaniote-Rite Machzor -- Corfu, 17th Century -- Unique Texts and Customs

Corfu 17th Century USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 13,750.00
15

Manuscript, Chumash with Masorah -- Yemen, Ca. 15th/16th Century -- Winding Letters and Special Letters

Yemen Ca. 15th/16th Century USD 5,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 6,875.00
16

Manuscript, Midrash HaGadol Devarim -- Yemen, 1473 -- Scribed by Rabbi David son of Rabbi Benaiah, Renowned Scribe of Sanaa

Yemen 1473 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 25,000.00
17

Manuscript, Midrash HaGadol Bereshit -- Yemen, 16th Century

Yemen 16th Century USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 8,750.00
18

Manuscript, Tiklal Siddur -- Yemen, Ca. 1653

Yemen Ca. 1653 USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 3,500.00
19

Manuscript, Tiklal Etz Chaim Siddur -- Two Volumes -- Yemen, 18th Century

Yemen 18th Century USD 3,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 5,750.00
20

Letter Handwritten and Signed by Rabbi Chaim ibn Attar, the Or HaChaim -- Inside a Large Volume with Hundreds of Autographs and Signatures of His Contemporary Moroccan Rabbis -- Including Many Autographs of Rabbi Yaakov Abensour, Rabbi Yehudah ibn Attar,

USD 500,000.00 - 800,000.00 USD 875,000.00
21

Halachic Ruling Handwritten and Signed by Kabbalist Rabbi Shalom Buzaglo, Author of Mikdash Melech -- Rabat, 1730

Rabat 1730 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 18,750.00
22

Volume of Handwritten Works and Halachic Rulings -- Dozens of Autographs and Signatures by Leading Rabbis of Fez and Meknes -- Rabbi Yaakov Abensour (Yaavetz), Rabbi Yehudah ibn Attar, Rabbis of the Berdugo and Toledano Families

USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 30,000.00
23

Volume of Halachic Rulings, Responsa, Homilies and Novellae -- Signed Autographs of the Yaavetz, His Descendants and Leading Moroccan Rabbis, 18th-19th Centuries

18th-19th Centuries USD 6,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 22,500.00
24

Volume of Halachic Rulings, Responsa and Novellae -- Autographs and Signatures of Moroccan Rabbis -- 1770-1820

1770-1820 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 23,750.00
25

Two Manuscripts from Morocco -- Hundreds of Autographs and Signatures of Leading Moroccan Rabbis

USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 25,000.00
26

Volume of Novellae and Homilies Handwritten by Rabbi Yosef Pinto of Marrakesh, Author of Lekach Tov, and His Son Rabbi Shlomo Pinto -- Novellae on the Re'em and More -- Marrakesh, 18th and 19th Centuries -- Unpublished Works

Marrakesh 18th and 19th Centuries USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 9,375.00
27

Two Manuscript Volumes -- Talmudic Novellae of Rabbi Yehudah Toledano -- Author's Autograph -- Morocco, 19th Century

Morocco 19th Century USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 8,125.00
28

Miniature Manuscript -- Kabbalistic Piyyutim and Prayers, for Protection and Success, and More -- Sale, Morocco, 19th Century

Sale, Morocco 19th Century USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 6,250.00