Manuscript, Five Books of the Torah, with Targum Onkelos, Tafsir of Rabbi Saadia Gaon and Rashi commentary. With the haftarot. [Dhamar?, Yemen. 1859].
Two large format volumes. Vowelized Yemenite script. Each verse is followed immediately by its Targum Onkelos (Aramaic translation) and Tafsir R. Saadia Gaon (Judeo-Arabic translation). Selections from Rashi's commentary appear at the bottom of the leaf. On some leaves, glosses and other commentaries were added alongside Rashi's commentary. The haftarah appears at the end of each weekly portion, with a verse of the Scripture followed by its Targum.
At the end of Bereshit, Bamidbar and other weekly portions: colophons and many calligraphic signatures of the scribe of the manuscript, R. Meoded son of Saadia son of Saadia son of Yichye al-Garidi, who wrote the manuscript in 1859.
Many places in the manuscript (primarily at the top and bottom of the pages) bear calligraphic signatures of R. Yichye son of Sa'id Garidi (1840-1930), Chief Rabbi of Dhamar (possibly brother of R. Meoded, the scribe of this manuscript).
This manuscript is recorded in the Encyclopedia L'Chachmei Teiman (II, pp. 27-28); the writing is attributed to member of the Garidi family from Dhamar in central Yemen.
Two volumes. Vol. Bereshit-Shemot: [191] leaves; Vol. Vayikra, Bamidbar and Devarim: [226] leaves. Approx. 33 cm. Lacking leaves at the beginning and end of both volumes. Some were replaced in a later writing. Condition varies, good-fair to poor. Stains. Wear and tears, with damage to text. Worming (major damage to the first leaves of Bereshit and to the beginning of Vayikra). Several detached leaves. New elegant leather bindings.