Manuscript, Siddur for Pesach, Shavuot and Tishah BeAv, with Pirkei Avot, Tafsir of the Ten Commandments, intercalations and Moladot, stories and more. [Yemen, ca. 1904].
Volume in large format. Neat Yemenite script in large letters, with decorations in purple for titles and initial panels.
Includes: Agadta DePischa (Passover Haggadah); Pirkei Avot; Shavuot prayers; Azharot by R. Shlomo ibn Gabirol; prayers for Tishah BeAv, with Eichah and Kinot; mourning service; Tafsir of the Ten Commandments by R. Saadia Gaon (in Judeo-Arabic); the passing of Aaron and Moses (in Judeo-Arabic); intercalations and Moladot; stories (of R. Yehoshua ben Levi, Daniel, Ukva bar Ida of Syria, Abraham). Some of the halachot and Moladot are in Judeo-Arabic.
On the endpapers are inscriptions in a later hand.
[89] leaves. One leaf in the Tishah BeAv service is bound out of sequence. One leaf missing between the mourning service and the Tafsir of the Ten Commandments. 34 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains, including dampstains. Worming, slightly affecting text in a few places. Open tears and damage to several leaves, affecting text. Stamps and inscriptions. Decorated leather binding, damaged, with worming.
The Moladot table starts with 1904 (until 1997), hence the dating.
Provenance: Gross Family Collection, Tel Aviv, YM.011.098.
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