1) Seder Hatarat Nedarim, Yemen, 19th Century.
Includes several hymns.
[26] pp. 10×14 cm. Yemenite script.
Moderate condition. Aging stains. Worming perforations. Wear on leaf corners. 2 torn leaves with significant lack. Cardboard binding.
2) Sefer Mekor Chaim by Rabbi Yichia ben Yaakov Tzalach, on the laws of ritual slaughter. Yemen, 1929. Copied from the Eden print, 1893.
With
Sefer Korban Todah by Shalom ben Yichia Chabshush, which is an elucidation of
Sefer Makor Chaim . The end of the publisher’s introduction is inscribed with: וזמר”ת[1893], however the manuscript on page 3b is inscribed with: “וזמר”ת י-ה ו’יהי ל’י לישועה” [1929], which is the year it was copied. Disordered binding; lacking from the end of chapter 28. 23a-29a are in a different script, and include excerpts from other works on the laws of ritual slaughter, amongst them the laws of ritual slaughter in abbreviated form from chapters 7-10 (23a-26a),
Se’elot MiDinei Shechita (26a-b), a passage from
Chibur Reumah with changes from the printing (26b), a passage from
Hilchot Shechitah on questions and answers in Judeo-Arabic, until the middle of chapter 3 (28a-29b).
[126] pp. 18X24 cm. Yemenite script.
Fine condition. Stains. Isolated worming perforations. Tears in the while margins of several leaves. Restoration to leaf 31 with damage to text. Simple binding.
3) Sefer Shaarei Kedushah by Rabbi Yichia Ben Yosef Tzalach on the laws of ritual slaughter, with Lechem Todah by Rabbi Yichia Badichi, Yemen, 19th Century.
On pages 15a-28b only
Sefer Lechem Todah was transcribed, and a blank segment was left to add the continuation of
Sefer Shaarei Kedushah .
[60] pp. 18×24.5 cm. Upright Yemenite script.
Condition: Very fine. Aging stains. New binding.
4) Teamim LeChag HaPesach . Yemen, 20th century.
Sermons compiled from midrash and other sources on matters related to Pesach and the exodus from Egypt.
[22] written pp. The remaining pages are blank. 9×16 cm. Yemenite script. Written in a notebook.
Fine condition. Few stains, thin red lines drawn across all pages.
5) Handwritten Yemenite anthology. Early 20th Century.
Pages 1a-3a contain a passage from
Aljama by David Ben Yesha, a Hebrew-Arabic dictionary for the Rambam’s Mishneh Torah. Includes the composition’s beginning until the word “אפר מקלה”.
Page 5b contains a copy of the beginning of the Aramaic translation of Deborah’s Song.
Pages 7a-10b contain Kitzur Klallei HaShiurin on the measurements of area, weight, coins and more, copied in part from
Sefer Nachalat Yosef by Rabbi Shmuel Adani (Jerusalem, 1906).
[30] pp, of which [15] are written. 17×23 cm. Yemenite script. One page is bound backwards.
Very fine condition with the exception of some aging stains. New binding.