Auction 54 - Judaica - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters, Ceremonial Art

Four Manuscripts - Yemen

Opening: $400
Sold for: $2,125
Including buyer's premium
Four manuscripts written in Yemen, [c. 19th century]:
· Manuscript, full kabbalistic composition (215 leaves), Likutei Te'amim. Concludes with a long piyyut of bakasha on the theme of repentance. In the last stanzas (215/b), the poet, "Yitzchak son of Yafet" writes the date on which he wrote the bakasha - 1821. · Three Megillot, Shir Hashirim, Ruth and Kohelet, with Targum. Miniature copy in attractive vowelized writing, with red-ink decorations. Illustrated colophon with calligraphic signature from 1860. · Passover Haggadah. Folk vowelized writing. (Lacking first leaf of the beginning of the Kiddush). · Manuscript, Likutei Ma'asi'ot, compiled from the Midrash and from the Talmud.
4 manuscripts. Size and condition vary.
Yemenite Jewry - Manuscripts and Documens
Yemenite Jewry - Manuscripts and Documens