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Bidding Information
Lot #    20394
Auction End Date    4/1/2008 12:10:30 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Ma’aseh Nes Purim al-Kabir
Title (Hebrew)    îòùä ðñ ôåøéí àìëáéø
Author    [Unrecorded]
City    Sousse (Tunisia)
Publisher    Maklouf Nadjar
Publication Date    c. 1930
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    88 pp., 180:120 mm., usual age staining. A good copy bound in modern half cloth boards.
          
Detailed
Description		    On Megillat Esther in Judeo-Arabic. The title refers to the great (al-kabir) miracle of Purim. At the bottom of the page is publication information in French, giving the name and address of the publisher, Makluf Nadjar, 26, Rue de France, 26 Sousse (Tunisie). The text is in a single column in unvocalized square Hebrew letters. From page 83, in Arabic in Hebrew letters, are the laws of Purim. The final page has a piyyut for the nes Purim in Hebrew, the first letter of each stanza spelling the name Abraham. At the bottom, again in French, is publisher information. The final pages are still attached at the top, having never been separated.

The volume has been attractively rebound.

          
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Listing Classification
Period
20th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Other:    Tunis
  
Subject
Bible:    Checked
History:    Checked
  
Characteristic
Language:    Judeo-Arabic
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica