Sefer ha-Asuppot[a] (Hebrew: ספר האסופות, romanized: Book of the Collections)[b] is the name of a compilation of medieval German Jewish halakha and minhagim, the manuscript of which is privately held by David H. Feinberg of New York[c][1] (fragments from the text are also found in MSS Paris 1408[2] and Girona 11.17[3]).
The work includes a large number of teachings, minhagim, descriptions of popular costumes, halachic rulings, and collected stories from numerous authors, displaying the ordinary life of Rhineland Jews in during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.
[d] The main author was Ashkenazi and a student of Eleazar of Worms (d. 1238),[e] but some content is from a later period, including a model writ of divorce dated 1307.
[14] Excerpts were published and republished by Samuel Eliezer Stern [he] in Moriah 173 (1987), Mayim Hayyim (1989), and Tzfunot 1 (1989), and eventually in his Meorot haRishonim (2002).
The work also discuses medical prescriptions, charms, marriage ceremonies, numerous commercial and religious contracts, various forms of excommunication, and mourning and burial customs.