Manuscript, Rambam's commentary on Mishnayot, Order Nezikin – including: Tractate Avot, with the Shemoneh Perakim preface. Copying of the Rambam's work in the original Judeo-Arabic. [Sanaa, Yemen], 1941.
Neat script, by two writers. The first (and main) part of the manuscript, until the middle of Tractate Avoda Zara, was written by R. Chaim Sha'er; the rest was completed by R. Yosef Korach, as he writes in the colophon on the final page.
The part written by R. Yosef Korach includes ornaments and headings in colored ink.
Including text of the Mishnah in Hebrew. The first writer added marginal glosses, mostly notes regarding textual variations.
Mori Yosef Korach (1913-1961), son and disciple of Mori Shalom Korach (1873-1953, dayan in Sanaa, leading Yemenite rabbi and prolific author). Served as teacher and Torah disseminator in Sanaa, and was one of the community leaders. He immigrated to Eretz Israel ca. 1950.
[221] written leaves. 23.5 cm. Good condition. Stains. Minor worming. Original, elegant leather binding, with metal clasps and bosses; worming and minor defects. Leaves of Davar newspaper from 1938 used as pastedowns.

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