Auction 33 - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters

Manuscript – Machzor for Rosh HaShanah and Yom Kippur – Tunisia, 1741

Opening: $3,000
Sold for: $4,250
Including buyer's premium
Manuscript, Machzor for Rosh HaShanah and Yom Kippur, as customary in North Africa. [Tunisia], 1741.
Complete manuscript. Fine Oriental writing. Contains poems for both days of Rosh HaShanah and for Yom Kippur, without standard prayers.
Colophon of copyist at end of manuscript: “Machzor completed on Sunday, 22nd of Elul, 1741, Ya’akov Chajaj”.
At beginning of manuscript, in different writing, additional poems, confession prayer [‘Al Chet’] and prayers for Yom Kippur”.
[5], 86 leaves. 20 cm. White quality paper. Good condition, stains, moth stains. New binding.
Tunisian and Moroccan Jewry
Tunisian and Moroccan Jewry