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Auction 93 Part 1 - Manuscripts, Prints and Engravings, Objects and Facsimiles, from the Gross Family Collection, and Private Collections
Decorated Manuscript – Prayers for the High Holidays – Yemen, ca. 1800
Manuscript, prayers for the High Holidays, with Maamadot and Haftarot. [Yemen, ca. turn of the 19th century].
Illustrated title page with floral motifs in green and yellow. Yemenite script in two columns.
The title page states that the manuscript was commissioned by Yichye son of Shalom son of Yosef al–Kamri.
The name of the scribe and date are not indicated, but there is a manuscript siddur in a similar style also written for a Yichye son of Salam al–Kamri, scribed by Yichye son of Suleiman al–Abyadh in 1794, and one can presume that the present manuscript was written by the same scribe, in the same period. The scribe was possibly R. Yichye son of Suleiman al–Abyadh, a dayan in Sanaa in the times of the Maharitz.
Late addition in final leaves, with various additional piyyutim and prayers.
[1], [104] leaves. 17.5 cm. Good–fair condition. Stains. Wear. Worming, repaired in part with paper. New leather binding, with leather closures.
Exhibition:
• Jüdische Lebenswelten, Katalog, edited by Andreas Nachama and Gereon Sievernich. Berlin, 1991, p. 241, no. 10/57.
Provenance: The Gross Family Collection, Tel Aviv, YM.011.019.