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Lot #    9933
Auction End Date    3/22/2005 3:12:00 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Et Sofer; Lashon Lemudim
Title (Hebrew)    עט סופר; לשון לימודים
Author    [Ms. - Unpublished] R. Jacob Ibn Zur
City    North Africa
Publisher    Isaac ibn Edrei, Scribe
Publication Date    18th cent.
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description
   [67] ff., 209:154 mm., nice margins, corners rounded, light age and use staining, several ff. with expert paper repairs, ink on paper, 30 lines per page, neat Moroccan script.
          
Detailed
Description
   Et Sofer specimens of contracts, documents and form letters, is an unpublished work by the Yavets. Sections of the book were published in R. Abraham Ankawa's Kerem Hemed, this ms., however, is far more complete and contains substantial textual variations. Leshon Limmudim, specimens of letters, essays, sermons, and Bible commentaries by the Yavets. Many of the letters are addressed to contemporaries scholars and kabbalist among them, R. Hayyim Ibn Attar, R. Samuel Zarafati, R. Habib Toledano, R. Meir de Avila, and many more. Leshon Limmudim remains unpublished. This ms. predates the other known copies, contains far more text, and above all appears to be far more accurate than other existing ms. Two highly important ms. in one volume.

R. Jacob b. Reuben Ibn Zur (1673–1752), rabbi, scholar, and poet; born in Fez. Among his teachers were R. Menahem Serero and R. Vidal Zarfati. Oppressive taxation induced R. Ibn Zur to move to Meknes, where he became a member of the bet din of R. Judah ibn Attar. Between 1738 and 1740 he moved to Tetuan where he also served on the bet din. At an advanced age, he ordained five of his students, who later became known as the "Court of Five" (bet din shel hamishah). R. Ibn Zur's works include responsa of considerable historical value. Some were published in the collection Mishpat u-Zedakah be-Ya'akov (Alexandria, 1894). Others are found in the works of his contemporaries and several hundred remain unpublished. He also wrote Et le-Khol Hefez, a poetical miscellany (Alexandria, 1893).

Additionally, his other works, still in manuscript are a large number of R. Ibn Zur's piyyutim are included in various collections, both printed and handwritten, of Moroccan zemirot and are among the most popular poetical creations of the Moroccan Jews.

          
Paragraph 2    We thank Joseph Avivi for his work on this ms., his report is attached.
          
Reference
Description
   EJ; J. M. Toledano, Ner ha-Ma'arav (1911), index; idem, Ozar Genazim (1960), 167; J. Ben-Naim, Malkhei Rabbanan (1931), passim
        
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Period
  
18th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Other:    North Africa
  
Subject
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Characteristic
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
Other:    Book
  
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