Manuscript, Minchah and Arvit for the Three Festivals, scribed by Yitzchak Meir Chaim Moshe Gabbai. [Baghdad, 1854].
Miniature format. Neat square and semi–cursive Oriental script, with ornaments.
Colophon stating the date of completion: 25th Adar 1854. Copyist's signatures in various places in the manuscript.
Yitzchak Meir Chaim Moshe Gabbai also produced that year a decorated Passover Haggadah (sold at Kedem auction 92, part II, item 131; Gross Collection IQ.011.014). There is also a group of decorated Esther scrolls he produced in ca. 1848–1854. See Kedem auction catalog, ibid, for more details.
[43] leaves (+ many blank leaves). 9.5 cm. Good condition. Stains. Tiny marginal tears. Inscriptions. Original leather binding, damaged.
Provenance: The Gross Family Collection, Tel Aviv, IQ.011.015.
