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Bidding Information
Lot #
33304
Auction End Date
3/13/2012 10:39:00 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
Title Information
Title (English)
Haphtorot for the entire year
Title (Hebrew)
הפטרות של כל השנה
Author
[Ms. - Bible]
City
[Yemen]
Publication Date
18th cent.
Collection Information
Independent Item
This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
Description Information
Physical
Description
[68] ff.,300:195 mm., ink on gloss paper, wide margins, heavy age and use staining, corners rounded, several ff. torn with loss, lacking initial 2 or 3, 1 or 2 within text and 2 or 3 final ff., text in neat square block Yemenite letters, bound in contemporary boards, rubbed and split.
Paragraph 1
The constant and heavy use of these works, often on a weekly basis, have not allowed many to survive the test of time. The few remaining copies are in poor condition with many repairs to damaged pages, often replacing entire pages as they become unusable. This copy, a survivor, has suffered the same fate.
Detailed
Description
Hebrew text with Tafsir, 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
18th Century:
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19th Century:
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Location
Other:
Yemen
Subject
Bible:
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Characteristic
Language:
Hebrew
Manuscript Type
Kind of Judaica
