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LOT 486:
Notebook From Gibraltar. Late 19th - Early 20th Century
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Notebook From Gibraltar. Late 19th - Early 20th Century
Notebook written in Gibraltar, with piyutim, prayers and various lists.
Specifications: [18] leaves, paper. 10.5x15 cm. Gibraltar. Oriental writing.
The notebook's binding is inscribed with: "פיוטים לכבוד חתן וכלה" ["Piyyutim in honor of bride and groom"], but only a small portion of the poems relate to weddings. Amongst the rest are Birkat HaChamah (5b-7a); notes in Ladino from the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th century; a list in Ladino written in "commemoration" in the year 5657 (1897), signed by "Yitzchak ibn Sirus" (7b); "Another Poem in Honor of the Queen [Victoria]" (9b); speeches and matters related to the community Nefotzot Yehudah in Gibraltar, 1898, among others signed by "Yitzhak ibn Sirus cantor of the Nefutzot Yeudah community" (12b-13a).
Condition: Front and back cover detached from one another and also from the notebook. Stains. Fine condition.
