Auction 44
Lot 125:
Complete manuscript, pirkei avot. Around the pages is tape with commentaries, including quotes from the Zohar and Rashi and Nahalat Zvi on Avot. There are also events described, some of which are taken from ancient manuscripts. In a later period, glosses and notes were added in the margins.
The colophon notes: “This book was completed, a commentary on Avot, by the eldest son, the talmid Yitzhak ben Yaakov Musa for Mordechai ben Gisin, Friday, 24th Tammuz 5472 [1712]. The reader shall enjoy and the thief will be erased in Abraham’s merit.” Probably Aden area of Yemen. 186 written pages. 18x23m. Pages detached, no binding, tears and stains.
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