Takfo shel Yosef r esponsa manuscript by Chacham Yosef ben Ayush Elmaliach, Part one. 18th-19th century.
Specifications: [2], 37 -144 leaves, paper. 20×15 cm. Arabic script. (Morocco). Until responsa 14 lacking. At the end of each responsa, the name of the author is written, sometimes including the year it was written. The book was printed in Livorno [1855].
It’s possible that this is an autograph manuscript from which the work was printed later. At the top of the manuscript, two leaves in different scripts were bound. On the second page, a lament on Yosef son of Yehudah Toledano by Yaakov ibn Tzur appears, (printed) and on the second page, a response in a different script, which was not included in Takfo shel Yosef .
Rabbi Yosef ben Ayush Elimalach, adjudicator and rabbi in Sale and Rabat, was appointed Av Beit Din in 1788. He authored Takfo shel Yosef , two parts. He passed away on 11 Elul 1823.
Condition: Fine condition. Some worming holes in the margins of the final pages. New binding.