Auction 8

Manuscript of “HaKharuzim,” Morocco 18th century

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Written entirely in Moroccan script, it is a collection of verses from the Tanach and Talmud and is decided for writing phrases with rhymes, as the Sages of the sefardi world did. Most are a high level of rhymes, all end in the letter khaf. Quality pages, an important and rarely found manuscript, ordered writing, 183 written pages, on p. 89 the top of the page says “rhymes by Rav Refael Arazi,” Signatures of ownership from a much later period, 1870. Identity of the writing is unknown. Generally good condition, not bound.