Manuscript. Minchah and Maariv and Kabbalat Shabbat. [Baghdad, ca. turn of 20th century].
Miniature format. Oriental script, square and semi-cursive (characteristic of Baghdad), written in black ink and some colored ink. Initial panels and decorations in color. All pages bordered by frames (colored pink, brown and yellow). Floral decorations in several places. Most pages begin with dome-shaped text: "Know before Whom you stand…". Decorated title page in middle of manuscript.
Includes weekday Minchah and Maariv prayers, and beginning of an Arabic translation of Shir HaShirim (with divisional title page; after which leaves are missing), and Kabbalat Shabbat (interrupted at beginning of Maariv for Shabbat). Kabbalistic kavanot incorporated within text and in margins.
[18] leaves (including 3 blank leaves). Lacking leaves in middle and end. 10 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains. Several tears. Worming. New binding.
