Kitāb Fatḥ al-jawād bi-sharḥ Manẓūmat Ibn al-ʻImād / taṣnīf al-Shaykh al-Imām al-ʻĀlim al-ʻAllāmah shaykhinā wa-mawlānā Abū al-ʻAbbās al-Shihāb Aḥmad al-Ramlī al-Anṣārī al-Khazrajī : manuscript, 1542

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله الذي بعث محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم رحمة للعالمين ... :Incipit

Rabbinical manuscripts of Judah Monis, ca. 1700s

This leather-bound volume contains ten handwritten Hebrew texts presumably compiled by Judah Monis in the early 18th century. The pieces range from three to 150 pages on different sized leaves and appear to be in multiple hands. The last page of the volume has the struck-through inscription, "Judah Monis' Book" and accompanies a 44-page text. The texts are unattributed and undated, but have been identified as transcriptions of cabalistic writings and include a short biography of Isaac Luria (1533-1572) and extracts from the work of Luria, Hayyim ben Joseph Vital, Jacob ben Hayyim Zemah, Abraham ben Isaac of Granada, and Naphtali Bachrach. The transcriptions appear to be unattributed and undated.