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LOT 132:
Signed Yemenite Manuscript - Passover Haggadah with a Kabbalistic Commentary!
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Sold for: $800 (₪2,800)
Price including buyer’s premium:
$
992 (₪3,472)
Calculated by rate set by auction house at the auction day
Start price:
$
300
Estimate :
$800 - $1,200
Buyer's Premium: 24%
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Signed Yemenite Manuscript - Passover Haggadah with a Kabbalistic Commentary!
Manuscript: 'Aggaddeta D' Pascha' with the abbreviated Etz Chayim commentary. Beautiful script by an expert scribe c. 1907.
This manuscript is unique and interesting for several reasons:
1) Passover Haggadahs are usually written in a large anthology of prayers for various seasons. Even when they are written on their own, this is usually done in a small format. Here is a volume dedicated only to the haggadah, and is in a large format.
2) A deep Kabbalistic commentary is next to the haggadah text! This is a very rare phenomenon for Yemenite Jews.
3) The manuscript is written with tremendous precision, as the scribe himself attests in the detailed colophon (refer to the photograph).
The manuscript concludes with a beautiful colophon in which the scribe relates that the haggadah was written for _____ - he leaves a space for the name of the person who ordered it. The writer's signature appears at the end.
The writer hinted at the date this haggadah was written in the form of a riddle: "אתה סתר...", with only the letters א and ת changing places according to the atbash [א"ת-ב"ש] code. The date that works out from this is תרס"ז/1907. The year is then written using another riddle, one that we have not managed to decipher.
[40] pp, 23 cm.
Fine condition. Aging and usage stains. The ties of the kuntressim are somewhat loosened. Original binding, somewhat worn.
