Manuscript in pretty and uniform Yemenite script, with the work “Mekor Chaim” on the laws of shechita by Rabbi Yehi ben Yaakov Tzalach. No niqqud. Missing some of the beginning.
The colophon: “Completed this book, Mekor Chaim, on the first day of Elul [1881] in Al-Majerba…and the scribe…Amram ben Mar Avraham of blessed memory…written for the chaver…Ya’ish ben Mussa…”.
45 leaves, 12x17cm. Yemenite leather binding from the period, defective. Stains, hole in the two first leaves.
