Beschreibung:

Manuscript, Menorat HaMaor, by Rabbi Yitzchak Abuhav. Sana'a (Yemen), Kislev 1848. Thick volume. Nice-looking Yemenite writing, on European paper brought to Yemen. Two columns per page, with titles and initials decorated in red ink. At the beginning of each "Ner" (name of chapter in the book Menorat HaMaor) is a red and black ornamentation [with the exception of the sixth and seventh Ner]. Title page illustrated with a frame (in two colors): "The book Menorat HaMaor was written by Rabbi Yitzchak Abuhav the Sephardi…written here in Sana'a…1848". At the end of the book is a colophon by the writer. Menorat HaMaor was embraced by Yemenite Jews and their communities adopted the custom of reading this composition in their synagogues every Shabbat afternoon. For this purpose, the book was divided into chapters for Shabbat and festival days throughout the year. In 1857, Rabbi Moshe Chanoch HaLevi, a Jew from Aden who reached Italy, printed an edition of Menorat HaMaor in Livorno for his Yemenite brethren. From that time, the Livorno edition became the basis for the manuscripts copied in Yemen. This is a complete manuscript of the composition (with the exception of a number of index leaves missing at the end), written before this well-known printing. [227] leaves. Complete composition. Missing several index leaves at the end. Good condition. Stains. Tear to one leaf. Leather binding [partially restored], with (damaged) leather laces for fastening.