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Manuscript Haggadah sehl Pesach Pizmonim for Shabbat Chol Hamoed and Hilchot Pesach - Yemen, ca. the 19th Century - Unique Yemenite manuscript containing the Passover Haggadah, Hilchot Pesach and Leil Haseder, prayers and Pizmonim for Shabbat and Chol Hamoed. Clear Yemenite script, partly vowelized. Hebrew and Judeo-Aranic script. [Yemen, ca, 19th century]. Pocket edition! Content of the manuscript:  Leaves 2-39: Passover Haggadah, Leaves 40-46: Dinei Arba Kosot and Leil Haseder. Leaves 47-52: Pizmonim for Pesach Leaves 53-72: additonal Pizmonim for Shabbat and Chol Hamoed, familiar and unfamilair.  On leaf 39b, at the end of the Haggadah section and before the Halachot section, there is a colophon signed: ”... יצחק בן מארי יהודה לוי”; the writer's identity has not been studied by us.  On leaf 46b, at the end of the Halachot section, an additional colophom noting that the Halachot are by Rabbi Mordechai Yoffe (Baal Halevushim).  Approx. [144] written leaves. 7X10 cm. Thick paper. The first leaf is missing as well as leaf 16 of the Haggadah.  Fair-good conditiom. Aging stains. Moth perforations. Small tears. Not bound. Possibly, additional leaves are missing.