Auction 63

Fine Rural Manuscript Haftarot for All Year Round - Lag BaOmer Southern Yemen, 1941 Good Condiiton

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Vowelized manuscript, containing Haftarot for all year round, fine, uniform rural script, wide margins with some additions. 

According to the colophon, it was written in memory of Evach ben Salem and by Tzalach (Tzadok) ben Nissim of Albicha – a village in southern Yemen in 1941: "ותהי התחלתה בל"ג בעומר לחודש אייר שנת ברנ"א [לשטרות שהיא שנת התש"א לבריאת העולם (1940)] ונחתמה ביום ה"י (ט"ו) לחודש אלול". Beneath it, an additional notation: "זכה וקנה עוץ’ בכ"א סאלם יחיא חסן…".

184 pp. 24X18.5 cm. Healthy paper. Leather binding from the period. Minor stains. Some moth perforations. Fine copy in very good condition.