Manuscript, Zevach Todah by R. Yichye Tzalach, and other works on the laws of shechitah and terefot. [Calcutta? India], 1799.
Yemenite script, with some additions and inscriptions in Sephardic script, on European paper. Colorful, illustrated title page, decorated with flowers and fruit. Additional illustrated title page on verso.
Writer's colophon on p. 92b, with name of writer – Yichye son of R. Yosef Harir and date of completion – 26th Adar II 1799.
The writer was a Yemenite Jew presumably living in India. He appears to be the Yichye Harir documented as living in Calcutta, India, in 1805, in the diary of R. Shalom son of Ovadia HaKohen of Aleppo.
See Hebrew description for contents of the manuscript.
[4], 41, 41–47, 47–49, [1], 41–92; [16] leaves. 15 cm. Fair condition. Stains, including dampstains. Worming, affecting text. Marginal tears. Inscriptions, signature and stamps. Old binding, damaged.
Exhibition:
• Jews of India, exhibition catalog (Hebrew). Jerusalem, the Israel Museum, 1995.
Provenance: The Gross Family Collection, Tel Aviv, IN.011.003.
