Manuscript, Diwan Shirot VeTushbachot - Poems by Rabbi Shalom Shabazi and of Yemenite Jewry

Manuscript, Diwan Shirot VeTushbachot - Poems by Rabbi Shalom Shabazi and of Yemenite Jewry
Manuscript, Diwan Shirot VeTushbachot, poems by R. Shalom Shabazi and poems of Yemenite Jewry. [Yemen, ca. 19th/20th century?].
Particularly thick volume, tall narrow format. Neat vocalized Yemenite script on thick paper. Title page with color decorations. The volume comprises three sections, with an index at the end of each one.
The manuscript contains hundreds of traditional poems and piyyutim of Yemenite Jewry, in Hebrew and Judeo-Arabic.
Several poems were added at a later date in unskilled hand in the empty pages and endpapers. Various ownership inscriptions (mostly deleted).
[356] leaves. Tall, narrow format: 22X8 cm. Condition varies, most leaves in good condition. Some leaves in fair condition. Stains and wear. Tears and worming, affecting text. Leaves trimmed, with damage to the notes added in margins. New binding.