Masechet Purim and other texts.

An amusement manuscript for Purim comprising of a collection of satirical texts and poems.

The first 12 surviving leaves contain the Masechet Purim - a famous parody text for the happy holiday.
This is followed by 'Minhat Yehuda Soneh HaNashim' - a misogynous, rhymed composition about women by Judah ibn Shabbethai, a 12th-century Spanish-Jewish poet. This considered to be Shabbethai's best work.
The last four leaves contain three humorous poems, first of which is also about women.

8vo, 190 x 13.4 cm, late leather-backed cloth boards with gilt Hebrew title to spine, with some wear and crack to its top, hosed in a modern card foldover slipcase with ties; manuscript on paper, written in brown ink in Hebrew, in Italian cursive script; modern foliation in pencil to leaves (misnumbered in the beginning), six leaves (seemingly with text) were removed following the first leaf; some dampstaining and dustsoiling, two red Yiddish library stamps; 26 ll.

Hirschfeld (ms. no.365); I. Davidson, Parody in Jewish Literature (1907); A. Neubauer, 'Textes Hebraico-Italiens concernant les femmes', in Rendiconti della R. Academia dei Lincei, 7, (1891), p.350.