Sefer Mekor Chaim by Rabbi Yichia ben Yaakov Tzalach, on the laws of ritual slaughter. Copied from the Eden print, 1893. 1929.
Specifications: [63] leaves, paper. 18X24 cm. Yemenite script. New binding.
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. With Sefer Korban Todah by Shalom ben Yichia Chabshush, which is a commentary on the Sefer Makor Chaim . Disordered binding; lacking from the end of chapter 28. 23a-29a are in a different handwriting, 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), ” Questions from the Laws of Ritual Slaughter ” (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).
Condition: Fine.