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Imru le-Elohim kol yetsir be-maʻan.
אמרו לאלהים כל יציר במען.
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- Format:
- Book
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Johanan ben Joshua, ha-Kohen, attributed name.
- Language:
- Hebrew
- Subjects (All):
- Jews.
- History.
- Germany.
- Yom Kippur--Liturgy--Texts.
- Yom Kippur.
- Yom Kippur--Liturgy.
- Jewish religious poetry, Hebrew.
- Piyutim.
- Jews--Germany--History--Sources.
- Alsace (France)--History--Sources.
- Alsace (France).
- Genre:
- Sources.
- Texts.
- Codices (bound manuscripts)
- prayers (document genre)
- Religious poems.
- Manuscripts, European.
- Penn Provenance:
- Formerly in the collection of Rabbi Dr. Abraham J. Karp.
- Physical Description:
- 4 leaves : paper ; 136 x 168 (105 x 160) mm bound to 140 x 169 mm
- Place of Publication:
- [Western Germany or Alsace], [between 1750 and 1799]
- [מערב-גרמניה או עלזס], [בין 1750-1799]
- Language Note:
- Hebrew.
- Summary:
- This is a manuscript of a portion of a well-known piyut; the portion does not appear in many liturgies and versions. The piyut "Imru le-Elohim emet poʻalo" (אמרו לאלהים אמת פעלו) is attributed to paytan Johanan ben Joshua ha-Kohen (Greece or Palestine, circa 9th century; for attribution, see Leser Landshuth, Ammude ha'Abodah, p. 82a and Davidson, Otsar, 5682+) and recited widely during the Yom Kippur Musaf liturgy. This excerpt was only recited in certain German communities (notably Posen; see Davidson, ibid.). This manuscript contains numerous variants to the Ashkenazic manuscript version (reprinted in Ernst Daniel Goldschmidt, Mahzor Ashkenaz (Jerusalem: Koren, 1970), volume 1, page 360).
- Notes:
- Ms. codex.
- Title from opening sentence (f. 1r).
- Collation: Paper, 4; 1⁴; modern foliation in pencil [i, 1-3], lower left recto.
- Layout: Written in 9-10 long lines, blind-ruled. First word of each two-line stanza in larger script in the right margin. Item oblong.
- Script: Written in an Ashkenazic square script with vocalization; similar scripts appear in liturgical manuscripts from western and northern Germany and also the Alsace.
- Decoration: Diamond following each strophe.
- Binding: Modern vinyl wrappers with stitching.
- Origin: Written in Germany or the Alsace region of France for use of an Ashkenazic community, possibly a cantor.
- Folds and wear throughout; a vertical central fold suggests that it was folded into a larger book, likely a prayer book.
- Cited as:
- UPenn Karp BVI.6.
- OCLC:
- 1241981158
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