Auction 059 Items from the Victor (Avigdor) Klagsbald Collection: Early Printed Books, Manuscripts, Glosses and Autographs by Leading Rabbinic Figures
Decorated Manuscript, Passover Haggadah Chukat HaPesach, According to the Sanaa Rite – Sanaa, 1894 – Documentation of Building of Synagogue by the Family of Yitzchak HaLevi in Sanaa
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Manuscript, Chukat HaPesach, Passover Haggadah according to the rite of Sanaa and Yemen following the Rambam and the Maharitz. [Sanaa], 1894.
Neat square script, with instructions in semi-cursive script. Some of text written alternately in black and red ink. Decorated title page, with headers in red ink.
On last leaf, colophon of writer, mentioning the synagogue of the family of Yitzchak HaLevi in Sanaa: "…Completed Adar II [1894], year 23 of Turkish reign in Yemen of… Abdul Hamid, may G-d place in his heart and in the hears of his advisors mercy to do good to us. And this year is the year of the building of the synagogue by the family of the sons of Yitzchak HaLevi in their neighborhood called Al-Jurka [in the Jewish Quarter of Sanaa], at the desire of my brother… Chaim son of Shakhr al-Sharifi. Levi son of Yichya HaLevi" (on the history of Yitzchak HaLevi's family and the Al-Jurka neighborhood of Sanaa, see preface to Edut BiYehosef by R. Yosef son of Moshe Yitzchak HaLevi, Jerusalem, 2004).
[22] leaves. 17.5 cm. Good-fair condition. Many stains and dampstains. New binding.
Yemenite Jewry – Manuscripts
Yemenite Jewry – Manuscripts 