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Lekha eli teshuḳati be-kha ḥashḳi ṿe-ʼahavati.
לך אלי תשוקתי בך חשקי ואהבתי.
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- Format:
- Book
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Ibn Ezra, Abraham ben Meïr, 1089-1164.
- Language:
- Hebrew
- Subjects (All):
- Seliḥot.
- Jews.
- History.
- Liturgics.
- Italy.
- Seliḥot--Liturgy--Texts.
- Yom Kippur--Liturgy--Texts.
- Yom Kippur.
- Yom Kippur--Liturgy.
- Jewish religious poetry, Hebrew.
- Piyutim.
- Jews--Italy--History--Sources.
- Genre:
- Sources.
- Texts.
- Manuscripts, European.
- Manuscripts, Hebrew -- 18th century.
- prayers (document genre)
- Penn Provenance:
- Formerly in the collection of Rabbi Dr. Abraham J. Karp.
- Physical Description:
- 4 leaves : paper ; 166 x 114 (143 x 96) mm
- Other Title:
- Baḳashah meyuḥad lomar lel Kipur uve-mishmarot ḳodem Seliḥot
- בקשה מיוחד לומר ליל כפור ובמשמרות קודם סליחות
- Place of Publication:
- [Italy], [between 1700 and 1750].
- [איטליה], [בין 1700-1750].
- Language Note:
- Hebrew.
- Summary:
- This is a manuscript of the piyut "Lekha eli teshuḳati" of R. Abraham Ibn Ezra (Tudela? 1089 or 1092 - Calahorra circa 1164), commonly recited on the first night of Seliḥot by Sephardic communities (for more about the piyut, see references in Davidson, Otsar, vol. 3, no. 809). This manuscript has a caption title beginning with "Baḳashah," suggesting that it was used for private recitation and not the communal liturgy.
- Notes:
- Ms. leaves.
- Title from opening sentence of piyut (f. 1r).
- Collation: Paper, 4; 1⁴; modern foliation in pencil [1-4], lower left recto.
- Layout: Written in 18 divided lines, blind-ruled. First half of each line ends with a double oblique hyphen; second half of the line ends with a colon.
- Watermark: Full sun with rays with "SYI" appearing in the center, across all folios.
- Script: Written in an Italian square script; one correction in an Italian semicursive script (f. 3r).
- Origin: Written in Italy, likely in northern Italy, during the first half of the 18th century (dated 1735 by Karp, f. 4v).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Karp BV.5.
- OCLC:
- 1246181818
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