Auction 93 Part 2 - Ancient Books, Chassidic and Kabbalistic Books, Manuscripts and Letters
Collection of Early Parchment Manuscripts – Spain and Yemen, 13th-15th Centuries
Collection of leaf fragments, mostly on parchment, from early manuscripts, which were used as bindings or from a "bindings genizah".
• Parchment leaf, Taj and Tafsir R. Saadiah Gaon, Vayetze-Vayishlach, Yemenite script with supralinear vocalization. [Yemen, ca. 1400].
• Parchment leaf, Parashat Nasso, Oriental script, with vocalization, cantillation marks and Masoretic notes. [Yemen?, 14th/15th century].
• Parchment leaf, Yeshayahu 39-41, Sephardic script, with vocalization, cantillation notes and Masorah Gedolah and Ketanah. [Spain, 14th century].
• Two parchment leaves, section of Melachim I, Sephardic script with vocalization and cantillation notes. [Spain, 14th century].
• Parchment leaf, section of Yechezkel, Sephardic script. [Spain, 15th century].
• Two paper leaves, Psalms 34-36, 46-39, in Oriental script, unvocalized. [Middle East? Yemen?, 13th/14th century].
8 leaves (including 7 parchment leaves). Size and condition vary.
Enclosed: report by Shlomo Zucker, expert on Hebrew manuscripts.