Festival piyutim : use of Meknès ; manuscript.
פיוטים לחגים, מנהג מכנס.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Elis & Ruth Douer Endowed Fund. PU

Contributor:

Elis & Ruth Douer Endowed Fund.

Sperber, Daniel, former owner.

David ben Aaron ibn Ḥassin, approximately 1730-1792, compiler, author.

ibn Ḥassin, Yehoshuaʻ, scribe.

דוד בן חסין.

אבן חסין, יהושע.

Language:

Hebrew

Subjects (All):

Piyutim--Liturgical use--Morocco--Meknès--20th century.

Piyutim.

Manuscripts, Hebrew--Morocco--Meknès--20th century--Specimens.

Manuscripts, Hebrew.

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

tuǧras

Hymns.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by rabbi and author Daniel Sperber (Kedem).

Sold by Kedem Auctions (Jerusalem), Auction 71 (May 2020) as part of the library of Daniel Sperber.

Physical Description:

45 leaves : paper ; 17 x 12 cm

Production:

Poh Mekhnese y.ʻa.E. [Meknès, Morocco], [Nisan-Sivan 5666, that is, February-May, 1906]

פה מכנסא, בחדש ניסן-סיון שנת עיניך ת'ר'א'י'נ'ה' ירושלים [תרס"ו]

Other Title:

first title begins (f. 1r): Zeh sefer ḳeṭan ha-kamut ṿe-rav ha-ekhut she-asafti ani ha-tsaʻir mi-sifre ha-meshoreri[m]...

second title begins (f. 38r): Azharot me-yusadim ʻal hilkhot Tsitsit ṿe-Tefilin u-Birkhot ha-shaḥar...

first title begins (f. 1r): זה ספר קטן הכמות ורב האיכות שאספתי אני הצעיר מספרי המשוררי'...

second title begins (f. 38r): אזהרות מיוסדים על הלכות ציצית ותפילין וברכות השחר...

Language Note:

In Hebrew.

Summary:

Piyut book, with Azharot, in the Moroccan Meknès custom compiled by David ben Aaron ibn Ḥassin of Meknès (1727-1792), and this manuscript copy written by his grandson Yehoshuaʻ ibn Ḥassin, copied from earlier manuscripts (first title page; his lineage mentioned on both title pages); piyutim for Passover (f. 3r-19v), Sukkot (f. 20r-29v), miscellanea (מלוקטים; f. 29v-33r), and Shavuot (f. 33r-37r; Azharot for Shavuot, f. 38r-45v; the Azharot, or extraliturgical piyutim composed for the Biblical Commandments, in this manuscript also written by David ibn Ḥassin). Written in a Moroccan cursive script (text) and a Sephardic square script (title page text, and captions in paragraphs). Title pages designed; first title page with an outtraced border floral design, shaped as a lambrequin arch, and second title page traced leaf patterns as herringbone styled border.

Notes:

Title supplied by cataloger.

Torn folio stubs between f. 1-2 show missing folios (f. 2r is the tuǧra and motto of Ḥanokh ibn Ḥassin, suggesting that this section may have been of Ḥassin family tuǧras).

Bound in a modern brown binding, with silver printed designs on spine (text פיוטים לפסח כת"י, with silver emblems).

Local Notes:

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

Cited as:

Festival piyutim : use of Meknès (UPenn CAJS Rar Ms 722). Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania.

OCLC:

1452121162