Auction 67 - Judaica - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters, Ceremonial Art
Manuscript, Taj of Bereshit-Shemot - Sana'a, 1653
Opening: $600
Sold for: $2,750
Including buyer's premium
Manuscript, Taj (Keter Torah) of Bereshit and Shemot - Torah with Targum Onkelos and Arabic Tafsir. Sana'a, Shevat 1653.
Neat Yemenite script. Two columns per page. Hebrew text, with verse by verse Aramaic and Arabic translation. Vocalization - sublinear for the text of the Torah, and supralinear for Targum Onkelos.
Marginal glosses and commentaries in several places, some entitled "P.R." (=Pirush - commentary). Masorah notes in several places.
Colophon on the last page of Shemot, signed by the scribe: "Shlomo son of Halfon son of Avigad (al-Tawili - see: Encyclopedia LeChachmei Teiman, I, p. 186), who wrote this book in Sana'a for "the good friend Yichye son of Yosef al-Dhabani".
Signatures and inscriptions testifying to the sale of the book on the first page of the manuscript: record signed by witnesses attesting that the book was sold in Tammuz 1789; and an earlier record (deleted) from 1783.
[183] leaves. 28 cm. Fair condition. Stains and wear. Worming and damage to text. Open tears, with early paper repairs and text replacement. Stamps. New binding.
Neat Yemenite script. Two columns per page. Hebrew text, with verse by verse Aramaic and Arabic translation. Vocalization - sublinear for the text of the Torah, and supralinear for Targum Onkelos.
Marginal glosses and commentaries in several places, some entitled "P.R." (=Pirush - commentary). Masorah notes in several places.
Colophon on the last page of Shemot, signed by the scribe: "Shlomo son of Halfon son of Avigad (al-Tawili - see: Encyclopedia LeChachmei Teiman, I, p. 186), who wrote this book in Sana'a for "the good friend Yichye son of Yosef al-Dhabani".
Signatures and inscriptions testifying to the sale of the book on the first page of the manuscript: record signed by witnesses attesting that the book was sold in Tammuz 1789; and an earlier record (deleted) from 1783.
[183] leaves. 28 cm. Fair condition. Stains and wear. Worming and damage to text. Open tears, with early paper repairs and text replacement. Stamps. New binding.
Yemenite Jewry - Manuscripts
Yemenite Jewry - Manuscripts