Baḳashot shel shabat.
בקשות של שבת.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Mizraḥi Dabaḥ, Yaʻaḳov ben Ḥakham Daṿid, scribe.

Contributor:

Elis & Ruth Douer Endowed Fund.

Language:

Aramaic

Hebrew

Subjects (All):

Lebanon--Beirut.

Jews--Lebanon--Beirut--History--Sources.

Jews.

Jewish religious poetry, Hebrew.

Piyutim.

Manuscripts, Hebrew--Lebanon--Beirut--19th century--Specimens.

Manuscripts, Hebrew.

Manuscripts, Hebrew--Lebanon--Beirut--20th century--Specimens.

Genre:

Sources.

Codices (bound manuscripts)

Religious poems.

Prayer books.

codices (bound manuscripts)

religious poems.

prayer books.

Prayers

History

Sources

Prayers.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by the Mudaheb family of Beirut, Lebanon (Israel Mizrahi).

Sold by Mizrahi Bookstore (Brooklyn, New York) in 2019.

Physical Description:

58 leaves : paper ; 175 x 115 (135 x 100) mm bound to 185 x 130 mm

Production:

Beirut, 1880?-1950?

בירות, 1880-1950

Other Title:

Sefer Baḳashot shel shabat, hemah ha-baḳashot shirim ṿe-shirot amarot ṭehorot ha-neʼemarim aḥar ḥatsot ha-lailah bi-neʻim zemirot ba-lel shabat ḳodesh

ספר בקשות של שבת, במה הבקשות שירים ושירות אמרות טהורות הנאמרים אחר חצות הלילה בנעים זמירות בלל שבת קודש

Language Note:

In Hebrew, with prayers written in Aramaic (f. 29r-32r, 34r-37v).

Summary:

This is a manuscript of baḳashot, piyutim and prayers meant to be recited after midnight on Friday night. The custom to recite baḳashot on shabat was widespread among Jewish communities in the Middle East, and customs (including variants in which psalms, prayers, and piyutim were read) vary; this is the Lebanese custom of baḳashot for shabat. Widely known piyutim include El mistater of R. Avraham Memin (written in Safed during the 16th century, f. 1v); Yedid nefesh attributed to R. Eleazar b. Moses Azikri (f. 48r); Yom zeh le-yiśraʼel by R. Yitsḥaḳ Luria (f. 27r); and Yasad be-yesodo bore le-binyan by a Yosef b. Harav. Uncommon piyutim include the Aramaic Yah mase kheʼevin raḥamana of R. David b. Jacob Pardo (Venice 1719-Jerusalem 1792, f. 29r); Yarḥiḳ nedod neʻeman a Yiśraʼel (f. 50r) and Agadlekha elohai kol neshamah by R. Abraham ibn Ezra (f. 49v). Written in 13-17 lines of verse; ruled in lead to the edge of the page (except for box ruling, f. 9r-10v). Written in a square script, possibly by multiple hands, with vocalization on some leaves. Contemporary foliation in ink by opening, upper left corners, 1-10, 10, 10-57, modern foliation in pencil, upper left recto, 1-58. The manuscript was written in Beirut (title page, f. 1r); title is within a geometric border in ink. Bound in 20th-century marbled boards with a red spine.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Elis & Ruth Douer Endowed Fund.

Cited as:

UPenn CAJS Rar Ms 524.

OCLC:

1127290427