Manuscript, year-round siddur with kavanot of the Arizal. [Kurdistan], 1742/1743.

Neat Oriental script, with decorations.

Decorated title page (decorated with verse from Proverbs: "Happy is the person who listens to me…"; a similar title page design can be found in a manuscript from Kurdistan, from the Gross collection, sold in Kedem Auction 92, Part 2, Lot 137). In the center in square script: "Year-round siddur with kavanot for the one praying to know to bring down the flow of bounty from above", below which is written in semi-cursive script: "Completed in the week of [Parashat Bo] in the year [1742], I the scribe Yechezkel son of Elazar".

On the verso of the title page is an introduction by the scribe, with allusions for prayer and the chazan, ending with an apologia for possible errors, concluding: "One who knows how to have these kavanot in prayer will receive ancestral blessings. Concluded in the week of [Parashat Bo] in the year [1743]".

On leaf 137, colophon of the scribe: "Completed… Yechezkel son of Elazar". His stamps appear on this leaf and on p. 120a.

The siddur contains: Weekday, Shabbat and Rosh Chodesh prayers, Hallel, Sefirat HaOmer, bakashot and several other prayers.

On many pages, the prayer text is written in a thin column, with the kavanot in minute script on both sides. On other leaves, the prayer text is written over the entire leaf, with the kavanot written in "windows" or as marginal glosses. Some of the glosses on these and other pages were written by another scribe.

On leaves following colophon (138-148), calendars (tekufot and leap years) for the years 1765-1813.

Signature on leaf 111: "Yosef Yechezkel".

On leaves 137 and 140, birth and death inscriptions: "The day Rachamim had a son and we called him Azariah… 1821", "The day I had a son… and I called him Moshe… 10th Shevat 1824", "The day Rachamim son of Azariah was born… 1794", "The day Yechezkel son of Rachamim was born… 1816", "The day Rachamim was sought… 1835"; "The day Rachamim son of Azariah had a son… whose name is Moshe, 1829", "The day Rachamim had a son named Yeshayah… 1830", "The day Rachamim had a son named Shlomo… 1834", "The day Rachamim son of Chizkiel was born… 1849", "The day Yechezkel son of Rachamim was born… 1887".

[138] leaves. 16.5 cm. Fair-good condition. Stains, including dampstains and dark stains. Tears and open tears, mainly to margins of leaves, affecting text in some places (affecting some glosses), mostly repaired with paper filling. New binding.