[Seliḥot for the Four Fasts : rite of Carpentras].
[סליחות לארבעה צומות : ‏מ‏נהג קרפינטרץ]

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Contributor:

Milhaud, ʻImanuʼel ben Gad de, scribe.

Moldovan, Joseph, donor.

Moldovan, Susan, donor.

Moldovan Family Judaica Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

יהודה, הלוי, המאה ה־12.

דמילייאב, עמנואל בן גד, סופר.

Standardized Title:

Seliḥot (Carpentras)

סליחות (קרפינטרס) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79085913

Language:

Hebrew

Subjects (All):

Tenth of Tevet.

Liturgics.

Fasts and feasts--Judaism--Liturgy--Texts.

Fasts and feasts--Judaism--Liturgy.

Ninth of Av--Liturgy--Texts.

Ninth of Av--Liturgy.

Tenth of Tevet--Liturgy--Texts.

Genre:

Texts.

codices (bound manuscripts)

prayer books

Manuscripts, European.

Penn Provenance:

GIFT FROM THE MOLDOVAN FAMILY COLLECTION By Joseph T. Moldovan C'76 and Susan A. Moldovan C'76. Donated in Honor and Memory of Jean and Dr. Alfred Moldovan.

Physical Description:

69 leaves : paper ; 195 x 140 (170 x 100) mm bound to 190 x 135 mm

Production:

[Carpentras?], [1663]

Other Title:

עלי איכה ישבה.

Language Note:

Hebrew.

Summary:

This is a manuscript of Seliḥot for the four rabbinic fasts in the Jewish calendar, 17 Tamuz, 9 Av, 3 Tishre (or Tsom Gedaliah) and 10 Ṭevet. The only missing element likely is a title, because the text begins with a bold heading for Shivʻah ʻaśar be-Tamuz, (17 Tamuz), and continues in this vein for the other three parts of the manuscript. The Seliḥot portions contain some standard titles seen in other Provençal manuscripts, such as Seliḥah, Rehuṭah, Taḥanah, Magen, and Iḥeret. For the section covering the night of 9 Av, between each chapter of Lamentations the manuscript contains verses from a kinah called ʻAlai Ekhah yashvah' (f. 16v), and the titles follow each opening (for example, "Ḳinah le-ʼAni ha-gever", or "Mournful poem over I am the man", meaning, Lamentations 3:1, "I am the man who has seen affliction," f. 20v), and for the final verses of Lamentations there is such a sequence for the final verses as well ("Ḳinah le-zekhor Y.," "le-Atah Y.," "ʻAlai hashivenu," f. 23v-26r). For the kinot sections of Shaḥarit recited on 9 Av, the scribe heads some of them with information about authorship, such as R. Judah Yahiya, R. Zerahiya ha-Levi, and one by the scribe's relative, the bachelor Yitshak ha-Kohen, likely about a local tragedy (f. 43r) and another by a Monsieur de Chissur [?] (מושיר די חישר, f. 43v); after this is R. Yehudah ha-Levi's Tsiyon ha-lo tishʼali (not attributed, f. 45r).

Contents:

1. f. 1r-14r: le-Shivʻah ʻaśar be-Tamuz

2. f. 14v-47v: le-Ṭ. be-ʼAv

3. f. 48r-60r: Sidur le-Tsom Gedaliah

4. f. 60v-69v: le-Ṭsom Tevet.

1. f. 1r-14r: לשבעה עשר בתמוז

2. f. 14v-47v: לט. באב

3. f. 48r-60r: סדור צום גדליה

4. f. 60v-69v: לצום טבת.

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title supplied by cataloger, with the term for the four fasts (ʼarbaʻa tsomot) taken from the colophon (f. 69v).

Foliation: Paper, 69; modern foliation in pencil, 1-69, lower left recto.

Layout: 16 unruled lines; for kinot forms, some are written in double columns, and others are written in paragraphs with centered headings.

Script: Written in a vocalized Provençal semi-cursive script in the hand of ʻImanuʼel ben Gad de Milhaud, a scribe who created many manuscripts for prayers in the customs of French communities in the late 17th and early 18th centuries.

Binding: Later binding, cheap leather, approximately 1850. The binding doesn't fit the manuscript and it has insect damage.

Origin: Written possibly in Carpentras, certainly in the Comtat Venaissin, by ʻImanuʼel ben Gad de Milhaud on 2 Sivan 5423 (Thursday, 7 June 1663).

Cited in:

Listed in the catalog of the National Library of Israel, Moldovan, Alfred New York, NY USA Ms. 13 (F 40457).

Cited as:

UPenn CAJS Rar Ms 498.

Contains:

Judah, ha-Levi, active 12th century. Tsiyon ha-lo tishʼali.

ʻAlai Ekhah yashvah.

יהודה, הלוי, המאה ה־12. ציון הלא תשאלי.

עלי איכה ישבה.

OCLC:

1101991624