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Elijah ben Solomon Abraham , Sefer Agadat Elyahu
Izmir: Yehuda [ben] Daṿid Ḥazan, 1755.

The Sefer Agadat Eliyahu is a commentary on the aggadot of the Palestinian Talmud written by Elijah ben Solomon Abraham, a dayyan and preacher in Smyrna (d. 1729). The book was published in the Ottoman Empire in the mid-1700s. The copy on exhibit reveals some interesting details about its apparently adventurous history. A memorandum written by Samuel Saunders on the page facing the title page says:
"This value of tre[a]sure of book was a-going to be destroyd for waste paper and I got to hear of it and bought [in order for] it not to be destroyed. Samuel Saunders".

 

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Title page and Saunders' memorandum

   

 

 

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