Letters relating to the Nehemiah Hiyya Hayon controversy [manuscript]
Published: 1650
Place of publication: Italy
Language: heb
Subjects: Sabbathaians; Messiah; Judaism
Notes: Library buckram binding.

Manuscript in Hebrew and Italian, 174 leaves, 210 x 150 mm., various sizes, written in various Italian cursive and semi-cursive Hebrew scripts, early foliation in Hebrew letters, modern foliation in pencil with errors.

Ms. includes the following published pamphets: 1. Sefer Shalhevet Yah (43r-62v) 2. Moda'a Rabba (63r-72v) 3. TokhhatMegullah (99r-104v) 4. Shever Posheim.

Other portions of note include 1. A letter regarding a woman of loose virtue (11r-15v) 2. A lits of polemical works based on Jonathan Eibeschutz' Luhot ha-Edut (174r).

Sotheby's New York Important Judaica sale, December 19, 2012, lot 121.

Sotheby's New York Important Hebrew Manuscripts from the Montefiore Endowment, October 27-28, 2012, lot 351.

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From the library of Solomon Halberstam (shelf no. 32).

From the Montefiore Library (shelf no. 469).

H. Hirschfeld, Descriptive Catalogue of the Hebrew Mss. of the Montefiore Library (London 1904).

M. Friedman, "Letters relating to the Nehemiah Hiya Hayon controversy," in Sefunot, 10 (1966), pp.485-619.

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