Bidspirit auction | Vowelized Taklil. Yemen, 1894. Impressive


Vowelized Taklil. Yemen, 1894. Impressive Volume - Thick handwritten volume - Yemenite Taklil including prayers for weekdays, Shabbat and annual festivals. Yemen, late 19th century. Extraordinarily beautiful Yemenite script, the work of an expert scribe. Impressive copy. Detailed Hebrew calendar at the end, from 1894-1959. Title page at the beginning of the volume with an illustrated border in various colors, without text. Colored opening words in the first (dozens of) leaves. Most of the volume is vowelized. Several passages are in Judeo-Arabic. Extremely rare in both completeness and condition! [167] leaf. 23 cm. Fine-very fine condition. Minimal usage marks and ink smudges. Minimal worming perforations in the inner margins. Beautiful new binding.