Taj: Sepher Vayikra [Book of Leviticus]. Large fragment with Targum and commentary by Saadiah Gaon.

AUCTION 68 | Thursday, April 07th, 2016 at 1:00

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Lot 109

(BIBLE).

Taj: Sepher Vayikra [Book of Leviticus]. Large fragment with Targum and commentary by Saadiah Gaon.

Manuscript in Judeo-Arabic and Hebrew with Nikud, written in a square Yemenite hand <<on vellum.>> ff. (45). Variously worn and stained, several leaves heavily damaged with loss of text. Bound into modern boards. Sm. folio.

Yemen: 14th century

Est: $3,000 - $5,000

PRICE REALIZED $9,500

A portion of an early Yemenite Bible. Each Biblical verse is followed by the Aramaic translation of Onkelus and the Arabic commentary of Rabbi Saadiah Gaon. The oldest Yemenite manuscripts are those of the Hebrew Bible, which the Yemenite Jews call “Taj” (crown).