Manuscript, Yemenite-rite Tiklal siddur – prayers for weekdays and Shabbat, festivals, special days and fast days, with laws and commentaries (attributed to R. Yitzchak Wanneh). Mogamah, Yemen, 1664.
The final leaf contains an ornamented colophon of the scribe "Avraham son of Shlomo son of Yonah son of Saadia son of David son of Benayah son of Oded Al-Khalafi", who completed the writing of the siddur in Mogamah (village in the Bani Matar district, south of Sanaa, central Yemen) in Sivan 1664. The moladot calendar in this siddur also begins in 1664.
Particularly neat early Yemenite script, predominantly with supralinear vocalization. The text of the siddur, in square vocalized script, occupies the center of the page, and is flanked by laws and commentaries in separate columns on each side (and sometimes in "windows" in the text), in non-vocalized, smaller script. Some lines in these columns are decoratively arranged in diagonal or wavy patterns.
Most of the commentaries and novellae are attributed to R. Yitzchak (Mahari) Wanneh. In the margins of several leaves, there are glosses by other writers, with additional laws and commentaries.
The scribe Avraham son of Shlomo Al-Khalafi from central Yemen transcribed the siddur of R. Yitzchak Wanneh – Paamon Zahav, in 1658 in Mafhaq (Bani Matar district, south of Sanaa). He is presumably a member of the Al-Khalafi family who worked as scribes in the cities of central Yemen in the 16th and 17th centuries (Encyclopedia L'Chachmei Teiman, I, p. 275).
The manuscript includes: prayers for weekdays; prayers for year-round Shabbatot; Pirkei Avot with commentary; prayers for Passover and Passover Haggadah with commentary (attributed to R. Yitzchak Wanneh); prayers for Shavuot; Megillat Eichah with commentary and lamentations for Tisha B'Av; prayers for the High Holidays; prayers for Sukkot and Shemini Atzeret, Hoshanot, prayer for rain, Hakafot and piyyutim for Simchat Torah; order of Chanukah with Megillat Bnei Chashmona'i; Purim prayer and Megillat Esther with commentary; eulogies; selichot for Leilei Ashmorot (for the month of Elul) and El Melech and Maranot selichot (piyyutim of selichot for Yom Kippur night, beginning with the words El Melech and Maran); Yom Kippur service (by R. Avraham ibn Ezra); order of blessings, Birkat HaMazon, Brit Milah and Pidyon HaBen; laws of mitzvot; order of leap years and tekufot calendars. Texts of contracts and Azharot following the order of the 613 mitzvot.
Birth records from the 19th and 20th centuries at the foot of a few leaves. Inscription dated 1893: "The good flower was born… in the merit of the Torah which is good, David son of Yosef Al-Uqabi, on 15th Nissan…". Another birth record of Musa son of David, born on 10th Adar I 1935.
[133] leaves. Lacking a few leaves at beginning of volume. 29 cm. Overall fair-good condition. Dark stains. Tears and wear. Open tears to many leaves, affecting text, with paper repairs. Several detached leaves. Leather binding, worn and damaged.