Two works independent works bound together, both only editions. The first title is Sha’arei Zion, explaining passages of the Oral Law, the manner in which the oral tradition was transmitted to the tannaim and amoraim, and the basis of the Mishnah and Tosefta by R. Isaac ben Jacob  Lattes and accompanied by detailed scholarly notes by R. Solomon Buber. Sha’arei Ziyyon is the first of two parts of R. Lattes’ Sha'arei Ẓiyyon. On the verso is a German title-page, followed by a dedication to R. Issacher Ber Lowenstein, and a preface and an introduction by R. Buber, and then the text. The second title appended to Sha’arei Ziyyon, is Yosef Hen, on the love of Zion and the Jewish people by R. Joseph Friedland.  by R. Nathan ben Joseph Friedland

R. Isaac ben Jacob Lattes (14^th century) was a rabbi and physician in Provence. R. Lattes studied under R. Nissim Gerondi . His main work is Kiryat Sefer (1885), consists of two parts: Sha'arei Ẓiyyon and Toledot Yiẓḥak. In it, Lattes explains passages of the Oral Law, the manner in which the oral tradition was transmitted to the tannaim and amoraim, and the basis of the Mishnah and Tosefta. He enumerates the 613 traditional biblical commandments in the order of their appearance in the Pentateuch and explains them according to Maimonides. He comments on the laws of the public Torah reading and explains passages from the works of Abraham Ibn Ezra and Maimonides. Lattes also mentions many rabbis especially those of France. Lattes also wrote a book on medicine in which he enumerates different classes of diseases ("fevers") and gives advice on how to treat them.

The title-page of Yosef Hen describes it as part six, Alim le-Terufa (medicinal leaves, cf. Sanhedrin 100a), speaking of the hopes of Israel, words of the prophets on our generation. At the end of the volume is a section in Dutch entitled De Kolonisatie van Palestina (The Colonization of Palestine).

R. Nathan Friedland (1808–1883), rabbi, precursor of the Hibbat Zion movement. Born in Taurage, Lithuania, Friedland studied in various Lithuanian yeshivot. The Damascus Affair (1840) made a deep impression on him. He believed that the redemption of the Jewish people could be realized gradually, as a natural process, and periods of liberalism and progress should be used to achieve this. The miraculous redemption would ultimately occur with the arrival of the Messiah. Friedland was unaware that some of his contemporaries held similar views (e.g., Judah Alkalai), and he spread his ideas verbally in Belorussia, Lithuania, and Germany, where he met R. Zevi Kalischer. In 1859 he published two parts of his work Kos Yeshu'ah u-Nehamah ("Cup of Salvation and Comfort"), in which he expounded his theories. R. Friedland met Adolphe CrMmieux and Albert Cohen in Paris, and presented petitions from R. Kalischer and himself to Napoleon III, who granted him an audience. Sir Moses Montefiore, whom he met in London, refused to cooperate with him. R. Friedland published a new edition of R. Kalischer's work Derishat Ziyyon, adding his own notes and essays. Friedland was an emissary of Hevrah le-Yishuv Erez Israel ("Society for the Settlement of Erez Israel"), established by R. Kalischer, and collected funds for it in Germany. During his visit to Holland, he handed the Dutch government a petition requesting their support for the restoration of Erez Israel to the Jews. His greatest work, Yosef Hen, expounding his views, was published in a shortened version (1879). At the end of his life, he witnessed the beginnings of aliyah to Erez Israel from Rumania and Russia. In 1882 he went to Eretz Israel from London and died in Jerusalem.

Hebrew Description

שערי ציון - כולל סדר הקבלה מאדם הראשון עד אנשי כנסת הגדולה וסדר תנאים ואמוראים... רבנן סבוראי והגאונים ויחוס הרבנים והחכמים עד זמן ה"א קל"ב. חברו ר' יצחק בהרב ר' יעקב די לאטיש ז"ל (והוא פתיחה או הקדמה לספרו הגדול תולדות יצחק הנמצא... בכתובים באוצר הספרים באקספארד) עם הערות ותקונים... ממני שלמה באבער...

נדפס ראשונה בכתב העת אוצר טוב, [א], תרל"ז-תרל"ח, עמ' 77-54.
הערות אברהם ברלינר נדפסו בתוך:
Magazin fuer die Wissenschaft des Judenthums, IV, p. 219-233.

יוסף חן - תוכו רצוף אהבה מגדולי שלומי אמוני ישראל, דורשי שלום ציון שוחרי אדמת קדש... לעשותה ארץ נושבת לה'... מאתי נתן בלא"א מוהר"ר יוסף זצ"ל פרידלאנד... [חלק א-ו].

BE shin 2145; CD-NLI 0159253 (incomplete); 0141956