Taj – Keter Torah. Bereishit and Shemot with Targum and Rash”i’s commentary. Beautiful ancient Yemenite script in the hand of sofer and transcriber Mori Yosef ben Shocher.
The biblical text is in large block letters with vowelization and cantillation. The Targum is in Rash”i script, also vowelized. Rash”i’s commentary is not vowelized. The mesorah appears in the leaf margins; the glosses and novellae in smaller lettering.
The colophon at the end of the volume describes Mori Yosef ben Socher and the hardships he underwent along with our brethren, the Jews of Yemen, writing as follows: “And I, in great sorrow, am in the city of Sana’a – we sit to this day under the burden of heavy tax burdens – there is no one who has mercy aside from our Father in Heaven.
Mori Yosef ben Socher was active in the second half of the 19th century. Several of his transcriptions are the possession of the sages of the Gavra family of Sod, as well as his transcription of the Etz Chaim siddur by the Mahari”tz in honor of the Ra’avad Mori Shalom ben Yichye Gavra, and his transcription of the Shulchan Aruch Tur Ohr HaChaim, with the “Shetilei Zeitim” commentary by R”d of Sharki.
[188] pp, 23×34 cm. Thick, high-quality paper.
Fine condition, aging stains. Ink smudges. Restored tear in the first leaf with damage to text. Leather binding.