Decorated manuscript, anthology of works in Aramaic and Judeo-Persian. [Kurdistan, or somewhere else in the Persian region], 1860.
Persian-Oriental script. All the pages are framed, including many pages decorated in color with text frames and fine floral decoration. The scribe's colophon "the young Moshe" (in one place: "the young and small Moshe son of Chaim"), with the year of writing "1860", in many places (usually at the ends of the works). His calligraphic signature appears on one of the decorated pages: "Moshe son of R. Chaim". In several places he writes: "I wrote for Chaim son of R. Aga, 1860".
The anthology comprises the following works: A Hebrew translation of the Aramaic "Second Targum" on Esther; Targum Yonatan in Aramaic on the Song of the Sea; the Aramaic Targum on Song of Songs; a Persian tafsir of the Aramaic Targum on Song of Songs; Targum of the Ten Commandments, an expanded Aramaic Targum; a retelling of Megillat Esther in Persian verse; "Targum Hikavtzu for Shabbat", a Neo-Judeo-Aramaic Targum of R. Yehuda HaLevi's piyyut "Gather [hikavtzu] and listen, sons of Jacob"; Tafsir of the Binding of Isaac for the morning service – a Neo-Judeo-Aramaic piyyut by R. Mordechai son of Nissan Sardasht; a recounting of Moses' passing in Aramaic, preceded by a Reshut for Simchat Torah, with the poem "None rose as great as Moses; none rose as choice as Moses"; prayer for rain for Shemini Atzeret; prayer for dew for the first day of Pesach; Aramaic Targum on Megillat Ruth.

[152] leaves. 19 cm. Fair-good condition. Stains, including dampstains, ink stains and dark stains (affecting text in several places). Tears and wear to margins. Open tears to first leaf, affecting text, repaired with tape. Inscriptions. New binding.

Provenance: The Gross Family Collection, Tel Aviv, KU.011.008.