Auction 51

Pretty divan manuscript in the original leather binding—Yemen, 1938

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Divan in pretty, uniform Yemenite script. Colorful title page with the title “Chupat Chatanim”, “poems and tishbachot to Hashem…on the secret to the happiness of the bride and groom, and for Shabbos and milah, etc…”.

Calligraphic writing with emphasis of titles. In the middle are 3 leaves with an index to the poems and an “Inyan Ahavat Shabbat”.

24x8cm. Total of 186 leaves, of which 2 are filled in from another paper. It also appears to be missing 5 leaves from a few places in the middle. Erasures and corrections, leather binding from the period, a few moth holes, worming damage on a group of pages in the middle, overall good condition.