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Seder ha-tefilot she-ʼomerot ha-nashim ḳodem le-mitsṿot ha-muṭalot ʻalehen : na. ḥa. h. le-hitpalel lifne ha-maḳom ʻal benehen asher yaldu ...
סדר התפלות שאומרות הנשים קודם למצות המוטלות עליהן : נח"ה להתפלל לפני המקום על בניהן אשר ילדו ...
Library at the Katz Center - Rare Book Manuscript CAJS Rar Ms 529
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- Format:
- Book
- Manuscript
- Standardized Title:
- Seder tefilot nidah, ḥalah, hadlaḳah.
- סדר תפילות נדה, חלה, הדלקה. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n91039496
- Language:
- Hebrew
- Italian
- Subjects (All):
- Jews.
- History.
- Italy--Gazzuolo.
- Tehinnot.
- Fasts and feasts--Judaism--Liturgy--Texts.
- Fasts and feasts--Judaism--Liturgy.
- Pregnancy--Religious aspects--Judaism.
- Mikveh.
- Hallah.
- Jews--Italy--Gazzuolo--History--Sources.
- Genre:
- Sources.
- Texts.
- prayer books
- codices (bound manuscripts)
- Penn Provenance:
- Formerly owned by Leon Norza (signature on final leaf).
- Sold at auction at Kestenbaum & Co. (New York), 12 November 2002, lot 476.
- Offered by 19th Century Rare Book and Photograph Shop (Brooklyn, New York), 2018.
- Gift of Stephan Loewentheil, 2020.
- Physical Description:
- 28 leaves : paper ; 109 x 80 mm
- Place of Publication:
- Gazzuolo, 1774 or 1775.
- גאזולו, תקל"ה.
- Language Note:
- Hebrew, with instructions in Italian.
- Summary:
- This is a manuscript of devotions for women for the women-only ordinations called na. ḥa. h. (נח"ה, nidah, ḥalah, hadlaḳah); in this context, they are for milestones during pregnancy (such as prayers for the third trimester and the ninth month), the lighting of the Sabbath candles, the tithing of dough, and a final prayer said immediately before immersion in a mikvah (ritual bath). While these three commandments are widely known as the woman's commandments, many of the devotions are dedicated to the remedying difficulties surrounding childbirth and raising children and not to general womanhood. Many of the devotional prayers are preceded by chapters or verses of the Psalms, with the exception of the final prayer for the night of immersion, and is a prayer for sons who become Torah scholars. Finally, the manuscript ends with prayers for a personal fast day (תענית יחיד).
- Notes:
- Ms. codex.
- Title from title page (f. 1r)
- Layout: Written in 12-13 lines.
- Script: Written in a vocalized northern Italian square script in the hand of Yeḥiʼel Menaḥem ben Avraham Urbino, a scribe who was known to have written liturgical and synagogue items in northern Italy in the second half of eighteenth century.
- Decoration: Curtains and tassels on the title page in a design surrounding the opening text (f. 1r).
- Binding: Hard paper binding with brown leather spine; much of the spine is peeling, and corners of the boards bumped and peeling.
- Origin: Written in Gazzuolo in the province of Mantua in northern Italy in 1774-1775 (chronogram: שנת ק'ה'ל'ת' לפ"ק).
- Cited as:
- UPenn CAJS Rar Ms 529.
- OCLC:
- 1198090828
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