...Tephiloth Yamim Tovim [selected prayers throughout the Jewish Calendar cycle]. According to Yemenite rite. Includes Hagadah for Passover

AUCTION 2 | Tuesday, June 03rd, 1997 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Books, Manuscripts and Works of Art Including Property from a Dutch Private Collector and the Late T. Nachum Gidal

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Lot 186

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...Tephiloth Yamim Tovim [selected prayers throughout the Jewish Calendar cycle]. According to Yemenite rite. Includes Hagadah for Passover

A Tichlal Manuscript. Yemenite cursive and square Hebrew scripts, in an attractive hand. With punctuation occasionally above the letter. Black ink on paper, ff.110. Opening page within geometric border Stained, modern vellum-backed boards, 4to

Yemen: 1777

Est: $2,000 - $3,000

PRICE REALIZED $2,000

Undated, as are most Yemenite manuscripts. Nevertheless, an interesting poetic prayer recited on the Fast of Av lamenting the loss of the Temple in Jerusalem records the Destruction 1,707 years earlier (i.e. 70 C.E.) Consequently the manuscript can confidently be dated to the year 1777. A later hand has corrected the date to accord with a recitation some100 years later