Auction 16 - Judaica - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters

Taj (Torah Targum and Tafsir) Breishit-Shemot - 17th-18th Century

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Manuscript, Taj - Torah Targum and Tafsir (Judeo-Arabic translation). Breishit-Shemot. [Yemen, 17th-18th century].
Written consecutively, a verse from the Torah with Unkelos Aramaic Targum and Arabic translation by Rabbi Sa'adya Gaon. Manuscript style characteristic of the 17th-18th century. Incomplete manuscript: missing beginning of Breishit, beginning of Shemot (with substitute page in later handwriting) and end of Parshat Pekudei.
198 leaves, 28.5 cm. Varied condition, good-fair, missing margins from wear to leaves, with unprofessional restoration. Use stains. Leather binding, Yemenite style handwork.
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