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| title | a drawing (Study?) of a Simurgh | ||
| language | no language drawing paper | ||
| place/date | persia no date | ||
| physical app. | A Persian Study/drawing of a Simurgh. 12.3x11.8 size. | price | € 125.00 |
| content | a drawing (Study?) of a Simurgh | nr. | mspers34 |
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| author | Zecharia b. Joseph, scribe | ||
| title | Ecclesiastes with commentaries in Hebrew | ||
| language | in Hebrew manuscript strong paper | ||
| place/date | Yemen 1892 | ||
| physical app. | Hebrew paper,33fol,248x175mm ink on heavy paper, light age, use, and damp staining, signed and dated, not bound. | price | € 395.00 |
| content | Ecclesiastes with the commentary of Rashi and the Targum translation. The breath and scope of this work reflects that for hundreds of years the Yemenite Jewish communities followed their traditional ways of secular and religious life, not being influenced by external trends and currents. Some customs in the Yemenite prayer rites go back to the prayer book of R. Saadiah Ga'on. From the 16th century on the Kabbalah and especially later its Lurianic school and system found its way to Yemen and influenced Jewish literary production in the areas of commentaries to the Bible, prayers, and liturgical poetry. All of this rich history is reflected in this work. | nr. | mshebr218 |
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| title | A double leaf from a Qur'an | ||
| language | in Arabic manuscript paper | ||
| place/date | n.p. 18th century | ||
| physical app. | Arabic paper, 18x24cm,4 pages of the Qur'an only,nicely handwritten. | price | € 22.00 |
| content | A superbe handwritten double leaf of a Qur'an. | nr. | msarab469 |
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| title | A leaf from a Qur'an | ||
| language | in Arabic manuscript paper | ||
| place/date | n.p. 18th century | ||
| physical app. | Arabic leaf,18x12cm,1fol=2p,1 decoration,nicely calligraphed. | price | € 15.00 |
| content | A superbe leaf from a Qur'an. | nr. | msarab470 |
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| title | Shiviti | ||
| language | in Hebrew manuscript paper on cardboard | ||
| place/date | Aleppo. 19th century | ||
| physical app. | One Hebrew leaf,26,5x34 cm, bad condition from Aleppo,Syria. | price | € 295.00 |
| content | Shivviti the opening word,in Hebrew, of the verse: "I have set the lord always before me" (Ps.16:8). As a part of the daily prayer,the word became clichM for Jewish devotion and common language. During the 18th and 19th centuries, and up to the present a votive tablet called "Shivviti",principally containing the above verse, was put up in front of those praying in the synagogue.This Shivviti looks serves like an amulet, containing magical verses. This Shivviti comes from Aleppo. | nr. | mshebr217 |
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| author | attributed to Chaim Vital | ||
| title | Goral Kodesh (('' Holy lot:'' mysticism and folk healings)) | ||
| language | in Hebrew manuscript paper | ||
| place/date | yemen 18th century | ||
| physical app. | Hebrew manuscript,104 pp,12x16.2cm, stained and wormed, first and final leaf remargined,later patterned linen boards. | price | € 1975.00 |
| content | Attributed to R.Chaim Vital (1542-1620) this Book of Lots, divided into 256 'recipes', is designed to provide a person with insight into spiritual matters, such as discovering the root of one's soul, that is, determining ones identity in previous incarnations (pars.121-122). The final recipes (pars.252-256) sought to reveal the name of the Messiah, his age, and the exact year of the Redemption. In a more prosaic vein, the book offers counsel concerning practical decisions regarding matrimony, business matters, recovering stolen property,etc. Prof.Gershom Scholem considered the attribution to Vital of Goral Kodesh ('geomancy according to the Zodiac') to be 'doubtful'.See EJ, vol.xvi,col 176. | nr. | mshebr216 |
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| title | an incomplete book on geomancy in Karshuni | ||
| language | in Karshuni manuscript paper | ||
| place/date | N.P. 1864 A.D. | ||
| physical app. | A Syriac manuscript,Karshuni (Arabic in Syriac script),100 fols,15x20cm,an incomplete copy with original binding. | price | € 795.00 |
| content | A copy of a book in geomancy (Arabic raml),interpretations,mentioning planets, on fol 12 last line in Arabic there is a mention of two scribes (Rabbon Yunan from Zaz and Gabriel and a date: 2175 Agr, which corresponds to 1864 A.D.This manuscript is probably a copy of a copy of the scribe Ilya b.Yaqub but 50 years later. 8 pages are missing in the beginning and the end is also missing. Still a manuscript on geomancy in Syriac is rare. | nr. | mssyr40 |
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| title | A drawing of a lady | ||
| language | drawing cardboard | ||
| place/date | Persia-India 19th century? | ||
| physical app. | An Indian-Persian drawing ,29,5x19cm. On cardboard. | price | € 175.00 |
| content | This is a drawing with a lady who holds a flower in her hand and in the margins we see birds,deer,trees and flowers. | nr. | mspers99 |
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| author | al-Hagg Muhammad b.al-Hagg Isma'il, known as Dolbashzada. | ||
| title | Ottoman Qur'an | ||
| language | in arabic manuscript paper | ||
| place/date | 1248A.H./1832A.D, | ||
| physical app. | An Ottoman Qur’an Arabic, polished European laid paper, c. 300 ff., 16 x 11 cm, vocalized naskh script, illuminated double opening page (ff. 1b-2a), floral illuminations in the margins to indicate the beginning of each guz’, entire text set within a gold frame, gold verse dividers, dated 7 Gumada I 1248 (1832), copied by al-Sayyid Hafiz Muhammad Halim b. al-Sayyid Hafiz Khalil, known as Khidr Yegenzada, who is one of the pupils of al-Shaykh al-Hagg Hafiz Muhammad, known as Yuzduzi, whose sixth Mushaf this is, and which was copied from the Qur’an of al-Hagg Muhammad b. al-Hagg Isma`il, known as Dolbashzada (colophon after the Qur’anic text), full-leather Oriental binding with flap, with gilded and coloured ornamentation (borders, centre piece, corner pieces). Before the beginning of the text is a Waqf-note by Salabashzada Uthman Agha, dated Ramadan 1340 (1922). | price | € 3500.00 |
| content | Qur’an. A typical example of an early 19th-century standardized Ottoman Mushaf. In these Qur’ans each guz’ occupies exactly ten leaves, which coincides with the quire. See for the conventions by which these books were made Jan Just Witkam, ‘Twenty-nine rules for Qur’an copying. A set of rules for the lay-out of a nineteenth-century Ottoman Qur’an manuscript’, in: Jan Schmidt (ed.), Essays in honour of Barbara Flemming vol. 2 = Journal of Turkish Studies, vol. 26/1 (2002), pp. 339-348. | nr. | msarab330 |
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| author | calligrapher signs Sayyid 'Abdallah | ||
| title | Calligraphic panel. | ||
| language | in arabic manuscript thick paper | ||
| place/date | n.p. 1240A.H./1824-1825A.D. | ||
| physical app. | Thick paper, 26.1x 39.8 cm | price | € 495.00 |
| content | Calligraphic panel, with a large basmala, written in nasta`liq script in black ink, within brown cloud-like lining against a background of gold. The whole calligraphy (15 x 25 cm) set within a composite frame, against margins covered with floral ornaments (corners on the right side slightly damaged). The calligrapher signs as Sayyid `Abdallah, with the date 1240 (1824-1825). | nr. | msarab459 |
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