Auction 46
Judaica - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters, Ceremonial Art
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LOT 218:
Manuscript – Midrash Chemdat Yamim by Rabbi Shalom Shabazi – Vayikra, Bamidbar and Devarim – Yemen, 1777
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Manuscript – Midrash Chemdat Yamim by Rabbi Shalom Shabazi – Vayikra, Bamidbar and Devarim – Yemen, 1777
Manuscript, Midrash Chemdat Yamim on the Torah, by Rabbi Shalom Ben Yosef Shabazi. [Yemen, 1777].
Colophon at the end of the book [Leaf 236/1], from Wednesday, the 26th of Adar Rishon 1777, by the scribe "Shlomo ben A. Yitzchak ben A. Moshe ben A. Avraham HaLevi called Eltzanani" of the city of Eltzafa, which he wrote in the city of Elraba, for "Ratza ben Said ben Shlomo El-Tza'iri". In the colophon, the scribe apologizes that he wrote the book in a state of poverty and need during a year of drought and he requests that G-d "forgive me for anything which I added or detracted or doubted my teacher, and anyone who finds any mistake, I will happily correct it…".
the scribe Rabbi Shlomo HaLevi Tzanani, lived in the city of Tzafa in the Sar region west of Sana'a. See Encyclopedia L'Chachmei Teiman, Volume 1, pp. 527-529.
[238] leaves, 22 cm. Good-fair condition, stains and dampstaining, wear and worming. Fabric binding, damaged.
On the leaves at the end of the book are various inscriptions and Goral HaChol symbols.
