Manuscript - Hilchot Shechita L'HaRambam and Sha'arei Kedusha of the Maharitz - Written by Rabbi Yosef Chamami Two ...

Manuscript - Hilchot Shechita L'HaRambam and Sha'arei Kedusha of the Maharitz - Written by Rabbi Yosef Chamami Two Years After the Death of the Maharitz - Sana'a, 1807
Manuscript, Hilchot Shechita of the Mishneh Torah L'HaRambam and Sha'arei Kedusha (abridged Hilchot Shechita) by Rabbi Yichye Tzalach - the Maharitz. Written by R. Yosef Chamami. [Sana'a?], Adar Bet 1807.
Neat Yemenite script, with titles and initials decorated with red ink. Colophon at the end of the manuscript: "Yosef ibn Yosef Alchamami [curly signature] and this Hilchot Shechita L'HaRambam and Sha'arei Kedusha by R. Yichye ibn R. Yosef Tzalach were written… completed on Sunday the 12th Adar 1807". The Maharitz, foremost Yemenite Torah scholar, died in the month of Nissan 1805, two years before this manuscript was written.
Lacking one or two leaves of the first chapter of Hilchot Shechita of the Rambam. Leaves from a later period are bound at the beginning and end of the manuscript which contain copies of various prayers, a section of Hilchot Shechita and an ordination of a shochet "Avraham ibn Avraham Yitzchak" from 1938 signed by three rabbis: R. Ya'akov Amrani, R. Amram son of R. Yichye Korach and R. Chaim Shmuel Alkasar.
[2], [42], [1] leaves. 16 cm. Fair-good condition. Stains. Worming. Contemporary binding.