Auction 89 - Rare and Important Items
Manuscript, Tiklal Siddur, with Commentaries and Glosses – Yemen, 1654
Opening: $3,000
Estimate: $5,000 - $8,000
Sold for: $5,500
Including buyer's premium
Manuscript, Tiklal siddur according to Yemenite rite, with commentaries – prayers for weekdays, Shabbat, festivals, special days and fast days. [Yemen, ca. 1654].
Neat, early Yemenite script, typical of the 17th century, predominantly with supralinear vocalization. In "windows" within the text, the scribe wrote (relatively short) commentaries, most by R. Yitzchak (Mahari) Wanneh. The Passover Haggadah contains a full-length commentary attributed to R. Yitzchak Wanneh, written around the text of the Haggadah (which occupies the center of the leaf. The siddur also contains many glosses – some long – by other writers (Yemenite script), with additional commentary and halachic rulings.
The manuscript includes: prayers for weekdays, prayers for year-round Shabbatot, Pirkei Avot, songs for Shabbat and Motza'ei Shabbat, prayers for Rosh Chodesh, prayers for Passover, Passover Haggadah with lengthy commentary, prayers for Shavuot, Azharot by R. Shlomo ibn Gabirol, prayers for fast days, Eichah and lamentations, prayers for the High Holidays, prayers for Sukkot and Shemini Atzeret, Hoshanot, Tikkun HaGeshem, Hakafot and piyyutim for Simchat Torah, order for Chanukah, Tikkun and songs for Purim, Esther scroll (with Tafsir), eulogies, selichot, Marranot and El Melech (selichot beginning with the words Maran and El Melech), order of Yom Kippur Temple service (by R. Avraham ibn Ezra), blessings, tables of leap years and tekufot, text of ketubot, divorce documents and other official documents. Shirot VeTishbachot piyyutim.
The tekufah tables at the end of the manuscript begin in year 5414 (1653-1654), hence the date of the manuscript.
The siddur is almost complete. It appears to be lacking one or several leaves after leaf [150]. It may also be lacking several leaves at end. The manuscript begins at the beginning of the siddur.
Prayers and lengthy ownership inscriptions (partially deleted or trimmed) inscribed on the first page (left blank by the scribe).
[159] leaves. Approx. 30 cm. Condition varies, good-fair to fair. Many stains. Extensive wear and tears. Marginal open tears to many leaves (repaired with paper), with significant damage to text. Non-original binding.
Neat, early Yemenite script, typical of the 17th century, predominantly with supralinear vocalization. In "windows" within the text, the scribe wrote (relatively short) commentaries, most by R. Yitzchak (Mahari) Wanneh. The Passover Haggadah contains a full-length commentary attributed to R. Yitzchak Wanneh, written around the text of the Haggadah (which occupies the center of the leaf. The siddur also contains many glosses – some long – by other writers (Yemenite script), with additional commentary and halachic rulings.
The manuscript includes: prayers for weekdays, prayers for year-round Shabbatot, Pirkei Avot, songs for Shabbat and Motza'ei Shabbat, prayers for Rosh Chodesh, prayers for Passover, Passover Haggadah with lengthy commentary, prayers for Shavuot, Azharot by R. Shlomo ibn Gabirol, prayers for fast days, Eichah and lamentations, prayers for the High Holidays, prayers for Sukkot and Shemini Atzeret, Hoshanot, Tikkun HaGeshem, Hakafot and piyyutim for Simchat Torah, order for Chanukah, Tikkun and songs for Purim, Esther scroll (with Tafsir), eulogies, selichot, Marranot and El Melech (selichot beginning with the words Maran and El Melech), order of Yom Kippur Temple service (by R. Avraham ibn Ezra), blessings, tables of leap years and tekufot, text of ketubot, divorce documents and other official documents. Shirot VeTishbachot piyyutim.
The tekufah tables at the end of the manuscript begin in year 5414 (1653-1654), hence the date of the manuscript.
The siddur is almost complete. It appears to be lacking one or several leaves after leaf [150]. It may also be lacking several leaves at end. The manuscript begins at the beginning of the siddur.
Prayers and lengthy ownership inscriptions (partially deleted or trimmed) inscribed on the first page (left blank by the scribe).
[159] leaves. Approx. 30 cm. Condition varies, good-fair to fair. Many stains. Extensive wear and tears. Marginal open tears to many leaves (repaired with paper), with significant damage to text. Non-original binding.
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