Sever Panim. Contains three books: Pnei Zaken on the Talmud, Pnei Moshe on the rules of the Talmud, and Pnei Melech on the Rambam. By Rabbi Moshe Zaken, son of Rabbi Kamus Maatuk Mazuz. Livorno, [1881]. Author’s dedication in his handwriting.
[4] 142, 10 leaves, 30 cm. On the page before the title page is a long dedication in the author’s handwriting and with his signature.
Rabbi Moshe Zaken Mazuz was one of the great sages of Djerba and served as its chief rabbi from 1910 until his death in 1915. He was a student of Rabbi Chaim HaCohen of Tripoli, author of Lev Shomea and other books. He was a posek, a very learned man, and a kabbalist, and he taught many students in Djerba. In addition to the aforementioned works he also printed other books (refer to Chochmei Tunisia, page 106).
Very fine condition.
[1] Aggadeta D’Pischa with instructions in Judeo-Arabic. Yemen, 18th-19th century.
38 leaves. 9×11.5 cm. Nice Yemenite script. Red initials. Missing a little of its beginning, and the middle of the blessing on the wine that was added after the end of the haggadah.New leather binding. Stains. Minimal worming holes. Moderate-fine condition.
[1] Haggadah shel Pesach. Yemenite customs with hymns, 19th century.
15 leaves. 11×16.5 cm. Yemenite hands. Ends with two hymns by Avraham Ibn Ezra.New cardboard binding. Stains. Moderate condition.
Beit HaRiya by Rabbi Avraham Arusi together with leaves from other works by the author, some unique. Yemen, [1911].
58 leaves. 11×18 cm. Yemenite script. Sketches.
Beit HaRiya written by Rabbi Avraham Arusi, from the first edition of the work (the second, expanded edition from 1919 is in the Ben Zvi Institute, 3370). Solitary leaves from other manuscripts were bound at the beginning of the work, including a title page for Ohel Moed by the same author and two pages of the book. This work regarding the halachot of gittin and kiddushin was never printed, and apparently does not exist in any other manuscript.
Rabbi Arusi was born in Yemen in 1878 and immigrated to Eretz Yisrael in 1923. He wrote books, hymns, and poems, only a selection of which were printed. Refer to Toratan shel Bnei Teiman, (Kiryat Ono, 1995), p. 89-91.
Half-parchment binding. Aging stains. Moderate-fine condition.
Works of Maamadot and Shimush Tehillim including segulot and amulets. Yemen, 18th century.
[1] Sefer Maamadot. 1744.38 leaves. 10×16 cm. אעבאר, Yemen. Yemenite script. Missing a little of its beginning. Colophon with the date 1744, place where it was written and name of the copier [see Hebrew catalog text].
[1] Shimush Tehillim with segulot and amulets. Yemen, 18-19th century.34 leaves. 10×16 cm. Yemenite script. Leaves 1a-27b: Shimush Tehillim. Missing through Psalm 7. Leaves 28a-29b: Segulot and amulets. Leaves 30a-34b: Kiddush for Shabbat night and havdalah.
New bindings. Stains. Light tears. Moderate condition.
Yemin Moshe. Laws of ritual slaughter by Moshe Ventura. Yemen, beginning of the 19th century.
77 leaves [should say 76 leaves: leaf 16 is followed by leaf 18 – but there is no missing text]. Complete manuscript. 10×16 cm. 1820 or 1825. Yemenite script. Illustrated title page.
The title page notes that it was printed in either 1820 or 1825. This work was first printed in 1624. Leaf 16 was supplied in a different hand, perhaps by the owner “David b’ Berham” in 1936. Lengthy glosses on a number of leaves.
New half-leather binding. Stains. Moderate condition.
[1] Peirush Sodot V’Kavanot HaOtiot and other kabbalistic commentaries. Yemen, 19th century.
17 leaves. 10×16 cm. Yemenite script.
See Hebrew catalog text for details of the content of this commentary.
[1] Kovetz Te’amim. Yemen, 19th century.
38 leaves. 12×16 cm. Yemenite script.
See Hebrew catalog text for details of the content of this commentary.
New bindings. Aging stains. Fine condition.
* Collection of hymns, messianic songs, supplications and songs to mark weddings and commemoration dates. Hebrew and Judeo-Arabic. A selection with super-linear vocalization. 17th-18th century.116 leaves, 8.5×12 cm. Leaves with various hands and scripts that were bound together.Worn cardboard binding. Moderate condition.
* Hymns and supplications. 20th century.12 leaves. 17×11.5 cm. Before the hymns (leaves 1a-2b): compilations from kabbalistic works in another hand.Cardboard binding. Marginal worming holes. Moderate condition.
* Songs and hymns. 19th-20th century.50 leaves. 11×17 cm. Songs and hymns in Judeo-Arabic.Illustrated titles. Possibly missing middle sections.New cloth binding. Aging stains. Fine condition.
Three megillot: Shir HaShirim, Ruth, Kohelet. With vowels and canillation marks. Aramaic Targum with vowels and Rashi’s commentary. Yemen, 18th century.
89 leaves. 13×17 cm. Yemenite script. Complete.
Begins with chart of tekufot for 1780, in a different hand.
Not bound. Worming holes. Minimal stains. Fine condition.
Fragments of leaves from the book Meor HaAfelah [Nur al-Zulm], of Rabbeinu Netanel ben Yeshayah, in Hebrew and Arabic. Yemen, 15th century.
5 fragments. Various sizes. Yemenite script.
Rabbi Netanel ben Yeshayah (lived in the first half of the 14th century) was an early Yemenite scholar. He was a Biblical and halachic commentator. He authored the Nur al-Zulm (Meor HaAfelah) on the Torah. It was written in Arabic in 1329. Most of the work follows the rational, philosophical path of Maimonides. However, Rabbi Netanel also integrated some ideas that did not follow that of the Rambam, but of Rabbi Yehudah HaLevi and Nachmanides. His work also contains many kabbalistic ideas, although kabbalah was not yet widely studied in Yemen in his time.
The leaves were removed from a binding. Tears. Holes. Poor condition.
Complete manuscript work. Shulchan Aruch, section Orach Chaim. With the Hagahot HaRam”a and the Be’er Heitev. Yemen, [1773].
317 leaves. 23×16 cm. Nice Yemenite hand.
The letters of the book Tur Orach Chaim are decorated. Red lines and decorations above each name of the simanim in the Shulchan Aruch, in addition to all letters referring to the Be’er Heitev.The title page bears a handwritten note regarding the copier along with the date 1773 and the named Saadya ben Yarchya. [See Hebrew catalog text.]
Original leather binding, lightly blemished. Aging stains. Marginal reinforcements to a number of leaves. It is very uncommon to find this type of manuscript without anything missing and without worming holes. Fine-very fine condition.
Tikkun Leil Shavuot written on paper in the form of a Megillah. Yemen, 18th-19th century.
[88] pages written on one side. Ink on paper. Yemenite writing.
Height: 18cm. Length: Approx. 10 meters. Most of the sheets have 4 columns per sheet. Each sheet is sewed to the adjacent one and the first and last are sewed to the scroll handles (atzei chaim).
The writing of a Tikkun Leil Shavuot as a Megillah is unusual and extremely rare.
The first sheet was completed in different handwriting on different paper. Age stains. Slight tears without lack of text. A few reinforcements. Moderate condition.
[1] Seder Selichot for Leil Ashmurot and Seder Simchat Torah. Yemen, 18th-19th century.
31 leaves. 10×16 cm. Yemenite script. At the conclusion, in a different hand: Prayer for rain. Leaf 1a bears an owner signature.Cardboard binding. Stains. Worming holes. Moderate condition.
[1] Bakashot according to the Yemenite customs. Yemen, 19th century.
44 leaves. 9.5×17 cm. Square Yemenite script. Ends with a list of bakashot. A few are not listed by Y. Tovi, Yemenite Manuscripts in the Ben Zvi Institute. Old cardboard binding. Stains. Worming holes. Moderate condition.
[1] Prayer for Rosh Hashanah according to one of the Yemenite customs. Yemen, 19th-20th century.
23 leaves. 11×17.5 cm. Yemenite script. “Tosefet Selichot L’Ashmurot supplement to that which is written in the prayerbooks,” “Nusach HaHeter L’Erev Rosh Hashanah” (4b) and various piyutim for the Rosh Hashanah prayers.New binding. Very fine condition.
Three megillot: Shir HaShirim, Ruth, Kohelet. With vowels and cantillation marks. With Aramaic Targum with superlinear vocalization and Rashi’s commentary. Yemen, 18th-19th century.
57 leaves. 16×11 cm. Yemenite hand.
The first leaf was supplied in a later hand. Mispaginated, and about 13 leaves are missing. At the conclusion: vestiges of the copier’s colophon that was erased.
New binding. Light tears in a section of leaves; the margins of a number of leaves have been reinforced with tape. Stains. Moderate condition.
Collection of leaves and fragments from various manuscripts, primarily Yemenite, some kabbalistic, in addition to calendars. 15th-19th century.
About 40 leaves. Various sizes. Various scripts. Solitary leaves and pages, not bound.
Leaves 1-21: Fragments from the Torah with Targum Onkelos and the Books of Joshua and Amos with Aramaic Targum. Leaves 22b-23a: Homily on the Torah reading of Noach. Leaves 25a-27b: concise kabbalistic commentary on the weekly Torah readings entitled “Sefer Rabbeinu Bachya al HaTorah.” Leaves 28b-30a: fragment from a kabbalistic work in an Oriental script. Leaves 31a-37b: hymns, prayer fragments, Ethics of the Fathers, and more in various hands, including later Ashkenazic scripts. Leaves 38b-40b: calendars for 1706-1728.
Various sizes and conditions.
Laws of ritual slaughter from the Mishneh Torah L’Rambam surrounded by two commentaries, called ” peirush rishon ” and ” peirush sheini ” and various compilations. 19th century.
[46] pages. 23×16 cm. Yemenite manuscript: clear, legible and organized.
Owner signature in the margins of the 9th chapter. Ends with a colophon, not dated. [See Hebrew catalog description for colophon text]. From scribe סאלם קומלי, noted scribe from 19th century, southern Yemen and possibly a
dayan in Damt, southern Yemen. Refer to:
Encyclopedia L’Chachmei Temen , 1, p. 557.
Not bound. Worming holes. Aging stains. Very fine condition.
Kav HaYashar by Rabbi Zvi Hirsch Kaidanover, copied from the Amsterdam printing, 1722.
140 pieces of paper. 16x11cm. Yemenite writing.
Complete with the introduction and colophon of the publisher Solomon Proops. At the end is the colophon of the copier Avraham ben Zechariah from 18 Av 1866.
New semi-leather cover. Aging stains. Fine to very fine condition.
Miniature manuscript with various handwritten goralot. Partially in Judeo-Arabic. Yemen, 18th-19th century.
[48] leaves, 12×8 cm. Nice hand. The first page of the manuscript has a few titles in red ink and a deed of sale .
Includes the
Sefer Goralot to predict the future and angel names. The Sefer Goralot is attributed to Rabbi Avraham Ibn Ezra, to predict the future according to the stars and signs of the zodiac.
Not bound. Aging stains. A few mold marks. Fine condition.
About 4 leaves and more than 25 fragments from about 20 other leaves. Paper. Various Yemenite hands in Hebrew and a little Judeo-Arabic.
Most are copies of the
Mishneh Torah L’Rambam . Includes fragments from other works.
Various sizes. Stains, tears and worming holes. Poor to moderate condition.
Thick diwan. Collection of poems from early Yemenite poets, most in Judeo-Arabic with customs for different occasions. 1933.
159 leaves. 12×17 cm. Vowelized. Colophon at the conclusion with the date that it was written. 1937.
Dozens of poems. With the prayers for the
chuppah and
kiddushin and blessings and Grace after Meals for a circumcision feast as per the Yemenite customs.
Old binding. Many worming holes. Aging stains. Moderate to poor condition.
Diwan. Dozens of hymns and poems in Hebrew and Judeo-Arabic. Yemen, 18th century.
121 thick pages. 23×8 cm. Yemenite script.
Mostly with standard Tiberian vocalization, although some leaves – particularly those at the beginning – have superlinear vocalization. Missing its conclusion.
New red leather binding with matching cardboard slipcase. Stains. A few tears. Fine condition.
Order of “Haphtarot” for the entire year according to the Yemenite custom, with vowels and cantillation, Mesorah Ktana in the margins and an illustrated title page.
Specifications: [63] leaves at the beginning, another [5] blank leaves and another [4] leaves at the end. Paper, 17×25 cm. On the last leaf “The Blessings of the Haphtorah”. Block Yemenite handwriting.
Unique Features: The author had Rabbi Yichye Tzalach’s book ‘Chelek HaDikduk’ before him, and refers to it several times by the initials C. H., he also had old “Tagin” and mentions changes to them.
Pleasant and orderly Yemenite handwriting. A title page with a leaf-decorated border is at the top. In the margins of the title page the scribe wrote: “And I will request help from G-d to help me and to come to my aid to write, proofread and amend it according to the original haphtorah of the early great Rabbis, and if one of my brothers who reads and studies it should find a mistake which is different from the early haphtorot, correct it, as mistakes are inevitable and who will understand errors [clean me from the hidden ones], the burden of time is much heavier than me, and may there be peace to all of the Jewish people”. Leaves from Tikkun Leil Shavuot in Yemenite handwritings were glued inside the binding. Additional comments about tradition were added by someone from a later period.
Condition: Very good. The title page is detached and has a tear with slight lack. Original leather binding with engravings and a damaged spine.
