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

Two Manuscripts - Chumash and Haftarot - Yemen

Opening: $400
Sold for: $750
Including buyer's premium
Two Yemenite manuscripts:
· Manuscript, Haftarot for the entire year and for Festivals - Yemenite tradition, with Aramaic translation. [Yemen, c. 19th century]. Handsome square Yemenite script, with te'amim. Ornamented titles. Original and translation, one verse following another. Lacking one or two leaves at the beginning (begins with the Haftarah of Parshat Noach). [131] leaves. 22 cm.
· Chumash Bamidbar and Chumash Devarim, with Aramaic translation. [Yemen, c. 19th century]. Handsome Yemenite script, with vowels and te'amim. Original and Targum Onkelos one page facing the other. Colophon with the scribe's signature on the last page: "David Manes Kapari" (see: Encyclopedia L'Chachmei Teiman, p. 580). [157] leaves. 16 cm.
2 manuscripts. Condition varies, good-fair. New bindings.
Yemenite Jewry - Manuscripts and Documens
Yemenite Jewry - Manuscripts and Documens