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Bidding Information
Lot #    13788
Auction End Date    3/7/2006 12:57:30 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Pentateuch
Title (Hebrew)    חומש בראשית שמות
Author    [Ms.]
City    [Yemen]
Publication Date    17-18th c.
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    100 plus ff., 317:218 mm., light age staining, creased and rounded on edges, ink on paper, Yemenite block letters with cantillation and pronunciation symbols, bound in moder cloth over boards.
          
Detailed
Description		    Two parts of the Pentateuch with cantillation and pronunciation symbols. For hundreds of years the Yemenite Jewish communities followed their traditional ways of secular and religious life, not being influenced by external trends and currents. Some customs in the Yemenite prayer rites go back to the prayer book of R. Saadiah Ga'on. From the 16th century on the Kabbalah and especially later its Lurianic school and system found its way to Yemen and influenced Jewish literary production in the areas of commentaries to the Bible, prayers, and liturgic poetry. All of this rich history is reflected in this work.
          
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Listing Classification
Period
17th Century:    Checked
  
18th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Other:    Yemen
  
Subject
Bible:    Checked
  
Characteristic
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
Other:    Bible
  
Kind of Judaica