Manuscript, Tehillim and Ma'amadot, with various prayers. [Turkey / Greece, or another place in that area, 18th-19th centuries].
Conplete manuscript, in handsome semi-cursive Sephardic script. The writer signed his name in several places: "Yehuda son of R. Shlomo Benveniste ", and sometimes using the name of his mother "Simcha".
The manuscript contains the entire Book of Tehillim, with Ma'amadot for all days of the week and prayers for various occasions.
Before the Tehillim is a "compilation of Tehillim with my name Yehuda Bar Simcha", and on page 19/b: "I, Yehuda Bechar Shlomo Benveniste ".
On the last page and on a leaf pasted unto the back
binding are inscriptions of births and deaths, from 1774 until 1814, with many names of members of the writer's family and others ("Yehoshua Ardit", "Refael Aharon Moniyon", "Our teacher, Binyamin Roditi", etc.).
[7], 95 leaves. 16.5 cm. Good condition. Some leaves are dark from ink apparent on both sides of the leaf. Stains and wear. Tear on one leaf, dampstains to several leaves. Contemporary leather binding, with damages.