Auction 30 - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters
Two Books of Haftarot – Yemen
Opening: $400
Sold for: $688
Including buyer's premium
* Manuscript of book of Haftarot, with the Targum. Yemen, 1867.
Amateur writing with vowels below. On the last page is the author's colophon of the scribe Ya'ish ben Yosef with the scribe's apology for mistakes, a curse on women who talk of mundane matters in the Beit Knesset and other inscriptions.
* Manuscript, book of Haftarot, with Targum. Yemen, [19th century].
Amateur writing with superlinear vocalizations. Scribe's colophon at end of book that he wrote the book for himself. Under the colophon is a sales bill in a different handwriting in Jewish-Arabic, from 1895, for the sale of the book to Doud Sachar Al-Amelech Yichye Salam, witnessed by Musi Ya'akov and Me'utza Ebn Shlomo.
2 volumes, various sizes and conditions.
Amateur writing with vowels below. On the last page is the author's colophon of the scribe Ya'ish ben Yosef with the scribe's apology for mistakes, a curse on women who talk of mundane matters in the Beit Knesset and other inscriptions.
* Manuscript, book of Haftarot, with Targum. Yemen, [19th century].
Amateur writing with superlinear vocalizations. Scribe's colophon at end of book that he wrote the book for himself. Under the colophon is a sales bill in a different handwriting in Jewish-Arabic, from 1895, for the sale of the book to Doud Sachar Al-Amelech Yichye Salam, witnessed by Musi Ya'akov and Me'utza Ebn Shlomo.
2 volumes, various sizes and conditions.
Yemenite Jewry – Manuscripts and Documents
Yemenite Jewry – Manuscripts and Documents