Manuscript, Ancient Tiklal Siddur, with Rare Customs - Yemen, 16th Century

Manuscript, Ancient Tiklal Siddur, with Rare Customs - Yemen, 16th Century
Manuscript, Tiklal siddur according to the tradition of Yemenite Jews, for every day, Shabbat and Festivals, with laws and instructions in Hebrew and in Judeo-Arabic. [Yemen, c. 1580]. Ancient Yemenite writing. Nikud Elyon.
Prayers for every day and for Shabbat use - including Pirkei Avot, for Passover - including the Passover Haggadah, Shavuot, Rosh HaShana and Yom Kippur, Succot - including Hosha'anot of Rabbi Se'adya Gaon, Chanuka and Purim, Selichot by Rabbi Se'adya Gaon and Spanish poets, prayer and kinot for Tisha B'Av, a prayer and a lamentation and eulogies for the dead, blessings before performing mitzvoth and the calculation of leap years, with a calendar for fixing the years and the tekufot.
The versions in this manuscript are early and unique and rare customs are preserved in its contents.
For example, since the early Yemenite Tiklal is partially based on the siddur of Rabbi Se'adya Gaon, this siddur has a separate version for an individual praying alone (without a minyan) on weekdays and on Shabbat. This is because of Rabbi Se'adya Gaon's ruling that an individual is not entitled to say Kedusha included in the blessing of Yotzer Or when praying without a minyan (quorum). The versions for an individual praying on his own, cited in this Tiklal, are very rare and do not appear in the manuscript from which the Tiklal Kadmonim was copied, which was published in facsimile printing by Rabbi Yosef Chabara (Jerusalem 1964).
The Passover Haggadah which appears in this Tiklal is according to the ancient tradition of Yemenite Jews, with a long detailed commentary in Judeo-Arabic, and is the earliest among the well-known Yemenite commentaries.
Among the blessings is a blessing to be recited in a house of mourning, at a brit milah, pidyon haben, pidyon (redeeming) a donkey's firstborn, at the time a mezuzah is fixed to the doorpost, version, laws and customs of its writing, donning tefillin including the version of the parshiot (in the Tefillin boxes) and the laws of writing and making the tefillin, tzitzit, burning chametz, eruvei tavshilin, chatzerot and techumin, blessing of erusin and betrothal.
Calculation of leap years - with calendars of the New Moons of the month of Tishrei, fixed days and hours for the four tekufot applicable to the years (1580-1598); (1599-1617); (1618-1636); (1637-1655).
Since the calendar for determining the New Moons and the tekufot begins in 1580, we assume that the Tiklal was written close to that year, perhaps somewhat earlier or later.
Marginalia in a few places. Ownership inscriptions on the first page: "This Tiklal belongs to Shlomo son of R' Yuda Sri HaLevi".
Lacking at beginning, middle and end. [102] leaves. Condition varies among the leaves. Good-fair. Several leaves are in poor condition. Stains, wear and tears. Several leaves (such as the last leaves with the calendars) have coarse open tears affecting the text. Without binding. Enclosed at the end are two leaves with indexes of the piyyutim [20th century].
The above description has been written according to the [enclosed] article of Prof. Shlomo Zucker, an expert on Hebrew manuscripts.