The manuscript contains the homiletical commentary on the
Pentateuch written by the greatest Yemenite Jewish poet Shalom
Shabazi. Little reliable information about Shabazi's life is
available. What is known comes from his own works, some 550 poems
and a few other texts. Shlomo Zuker, on the basis of careful
comparison with a number of other signed manuscripts, notably two
manuscripts in the National Library of Israel, a Mishneh Torah
fragment (Heb. Ms. 8° 6570) and a Tikhal of 1677 (Yah. Heb. 152),
identified this Braginsky manuscript as an autograph of Shabazi.
The text of this manuscript, containing the commentary on Genesis
37-Deuteronomy 31, differs from other known versions of the
commentary.
