Yemenite Taj, 1300 - 1499

From Uri Melammed (1991):

"Yemenite Taj (not Tiklal as indicated in the Rogers catalogue) written in a different hand and thus unrelated to Harris 13. This manuscript may have been sold along with the Harris 13 as one Pentateuchal text, insofar as this manuscript completes Harris 13 (Genesis-Exodus; Harris 14: Leviticus-Deuteronomy). The manuscript includes a familiar curse or warning against anyone stealing it as well as a genealogical record of the Hamdi family. The beginning of the leaf opposite parshat be-Sinai (in Leviticus) contains the autograph of Yosef al-Kindil, of the famous al-Kindil family. The leaf beginning the Book of Numbers is written in a different hand. A verse count is given at the end of each book. The manuscript is written in two column form and thus is more recent in date. It contains many errors and is less accurate than Harris 13. The last leaf contains a familiar Yemenite prayer, to be recited before study, in acrostic form, which was meant to serve as a mnemonic."

Also contains Sha'are Kedusha, rules for ritual slaughter, by Rabbi Yahya. Eight pages of manuscript, paper size 4.25 x 6.25 inches, noted March, 1967.