Yefet ben Eli, Commentary on Ezekiel 43

Yefet ben Eli al-Baṣrī

11th Century

Damaged manuscript page with a paragraph of Hebrew above a diagram of labelled concentric bold rectangles with flourishes at the outside corners.
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