Manuscript, Tiklal siddur for year-round and festivals, with commentaries and laws. [Yemen, ca. 1636]. Hebrew and Judeo-Arabic.
Neat, early Yemenite script, partly with supralinear vocalization. The scribe integrated commentaries and laws in separate columns or in-text "windows". Additional glosses appear in the margins with commentaries and laws by other writers.
The manuscript includes: pre-service prayers and piyyutim; weekday prayers; prayers for year-round Shabbatot; Pirkei Avot (with commentary); prayers and piyyutim for Motzaei Shabbat; prayers for Rosh Chodesh; prayer for Passover nights and Passover Haggadah (with commentaries and laws); prayer for Passover and Shavuot; prayer for fast days and Tisha B'Av; Megillat Eichah and lamentations for Tisha B'Av; prayers for the High Holidays and Sukkot; Hoshanot (with commentary); piyyutim for Shemini Atzeret and Simchat Torah; order for Chanukah (with commentary) and Megillat Bnei Chashmona'i; Purim prayer (with commentary); eulogies; El Melech and Maranot selichot (selichot piyyutim for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur night, opening with "El Melech" and "Maran"); Yom Kippur service (by R. Avraham ibn Ezra); Keter Malchut – by R. Shmuel[!] ibn Gabirol; selichot for the month of Elul; Birkat HaMazon (with commentaries); order of blessings, Brit Milah and Pidyon HaBen; laws of mitzvot (in Judeo-Arabic); order of leap years and Tekufot calendars.
The Tekufot calendars begin from the year 5397 (1636-1637), hence the date of the manuscript.
Piyyut in late script on p. [131b], signed at the end: "Shimon Tzalach".
[281] leaves. Approx. 20 cm. Lacking several leaves at beginning and end of siddur. Condition varies, fair-good. Stains, including dampstains and dark stains (wine and food stains), wear and tears. Open tears to several leaves, affecting text, repaired with paper. Worming to some leaves. New binding with leather spine.