Handwritten – Sefer ‘Menorat Hama’or. Yemen 19th Century

Handwritten – Sefer ‘Menorat Hama’or. Yemen 19th Century
Hand written, Sefer Menorat Hama’or, from Rabbi Yitzhak Aboab. Thick vol. Pleasant looking Yemenite handwriting, on paper that underwent ibudmeshicha. Two columns per page. Lacks a cover page. Sefer Menorat Hama’or contains a collection of articles about legends from the Talmud and Midrash that deal with morals and derecheretz. The book was amiably accepted by all of the communities of Israel, especially by the Jews of Yemen, who are accustomed to routinely learning on Shabbat and high holidays after musaf, the section of menorat hama’or. In the year 1857, Rabbi Moshe HanochHalevi, a Jew from Eden who immigrated to Italy, printed an edition of the book Menorat Hama’orin the city of Livorno for the Jews of Yemen. For then on, the Livorno edition became the mother edition of the hand written editions copied in Yemen. This copy is a complete edition of one of these copied books. 107 pages 32 “cm. Old leather binding (partly restored) with ornamented star of davids. Leather strings for tying. Moisture stains. Moth holes with damage to the text on a number of pages. Several of the pages have been professionally restored. Overall fair condition.