Complete Handwritten Composition [!], Author's Autograph - the 1740's - Aggadah and Mussar on Halachic Matters

Complete Handwritten Composition [!], Author's Autograph - the 1740's - Aggadah and Mussar on Halachic Matters
A manuscript containing a complete composition – 14 chapters [99 leaves] of Aggadah and Mussar. The writer rebukes his contemporaries on different halachic and Mussar matters. His words reveal important information about contemporary popular customs. Written in the 1740's. Author's autograph.
The composition has no title page. On the Forsazt leaf, a late pencil inscription of its title: "Yad Yekutiel". At the beginning of the first chapter, the author writes about a commentary "which was hidden about 170 years in the manuscripts of my genius uncle M. Shlomo the disciple of the well-known genius Rashal". That is, Rabbi Shlomo (of Lvov) ben Rabbi Avraham, a rabbi on Mezeritch, the disciple of the Maharshal, author of "Mizbe'ach Ha'Zahav" (printed Basel 1602).
The composition refers to compositions and rabbis, among them Rabbi Ya'akov Reisher author of the Shvut Ya'akov Responsa, the Melamed Le'Ho'il Responsa (an early composition from the 1740's) and more.
Leaf 99 contains indices.
The second section of the volume includes 12 leaves of Mussar.
The third section of the volume is a (Yiddish) composition titled "Ge'ulat Krovim". Three written leaves.
At the end of the volume, different essays handwritten by the author: "For a Wedding Feast" (a Yiddish and Hebrew poem), "Smichut Ha'Torah" – commentary on the Parashot. The commentary ends in the middle of a sentence; it seems therefore that there were additional leaves.
Attached to the book is part of a letter (most likely in the author's handwriting) to "My well-known in-law … Rabbi Aryeh Leib...".
20 cm.
Condition: Very Good. Hard binding. Thick leaves.