Auction 19
Lot 161:
A manuscript, a Yemenite festival prayer book, with prayers for the entire yearly cycle, including prayers unique to the Yemenite liturgy. The manuscript includes: Tikun for Purim, prayers for the evening and morning of Pesach (it is interesting to note that the psalm "Hodu L’Hashem ki tov" which the chassidim recite on Friday nights as instituted by the Ba’al Shem Tov, appears in the liturgy before us as being recited on the evening of Pesach). Prayers for the festival of Shavuot, azharot, Seder Tisha B’Av, ashmurot, prayers for the High Holy Days, Keter Malchut, prayers for the entire festival of Succot, meranot, a chart of the years according to the minyan hashtarot (from 1889), resolution of dreams and more. At the end of the manuscript: ‘Kitav Eldama’ – a letter of protection for the Jews from the religious Moslem ruler, in Judeo-Arabic, and at the end the king’s family tree from father to son tracing back to Ishmael the son of the patriarch Avraham and from there to Adam! | Written in the handwriting of the scribe Mori Natan son of Chilkia Tzoram, one of the sages of Sana’a in the 19/20th century (Encyclopedia L’Chachmei Teiman page 511). In ink, on thick, high-quality paper. In smooth and pretty writing. Partially vowelized. Yemen, 1874. | Original leather binding, partially detached. Several leaves are detached. | [173] leaves. 18×12 cm. Overall condition: Fair – Good.
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