The Dorot Jewish Division in the New York Public Library has approximately 250 Hebrew manuscripts, mostly early modem Italian and Yemenite. They include a collection of Hebrew manuscripts formerly held by the library’s Manuscript Division, of which 38 (nos. 1-13, 101-125) were described by A. Freimann in a typewritten catalogue dated 1942, and nine (nos. 126-134) were added afterwards. Among the items transferred from the Manuscript Division to the Jewish Division in 2006 are one Torah scroll (and eleven leaves from five different scrolls), three Esther scrolls and one scroll of Ecclesiastes. All of these scrolls are late, from the eighteenth or nineteenth centuries. Three Esther scrolls and a Hebrew Bible dated 1294, formerly in the possession of Mayer Goldschmidt of Frankfurt, are in the Spencer Collection (manuscripts 1-4). Dozens of items have been bought at auction over the past decades, including several manuscripts from the London, Montefiore Collection.
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