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Sep 3, 2014 (Your local time)
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LOT 36:

Manuscript, Compilation of Laws Regarding Animals and Fowl – Rangoon (Yangon, Burma), 1907

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Manuscript, Compilation of the Laws regarding Animals and Compilation of the Laws regarding Fowl, laws of Shechita and Trefot. Rangoon (Yangon, Burma), 1907. Hebrew and Judeo-Arabic.
Square writing, with vowels (Nikud). Part 1 contains the laws of Shechita and Trefot of animals and Part 2 deals with the laws of fowl. Colophon at the end of Part 1: "Here in the city of Rangoon on Thursday, the 5th of Cheshvan 1907, the writer and the young Shaul Yitzchak Meir Elisha, who collected and arranged the material ". A similar colophon is at the end of Part 2 as well, dated Monday the 4th of Adar 1907. In addition to "Here Rangoon", the words "Here Bagdad" are also written at the top of the manuscript (apparently referring to the custom of Bagdad Jewry as most of the Rangoon community had belonged to the Bagdad community).
[75] leaves (most written on one side). 21 cm. Most leaves are in good condition, some significant tears on several leaves (most caused by ink erosion). Spotting. New binding.

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