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[Piyut book].
[ספר-פיוט].
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts CAJS Rar Ms 738
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- Format:
- Book
- Manuscript
- Language:
- Hebrew
- Judeo-Arabic
- Subjects (All):
- Piyutim.
- Jews--Morocco--18th century--Liturgy.
- Jews.
- Jews--Morocco--19th century--Liturgy.
- Manuscripts, Hebrew--Morocco--Ighil--18th century--Specimens.
- Manuscripts, Hebrew.
- Manuscripts, Judeo-Arabic--Morocco--Ighil--18th century--Specimens.
- Manuscripts, Judeo-Arabic.
- Marrakech (Morocco : Province)--18th century--Manuscripts--Specimens.
- Marrakech (Morocco : Province).
- Genre:
- Codices (bound manuscripts)
- Penn Provenance:
- Sold by Refa'eli Auctions (Jerusalem), 2022.
- Physical Description:
- 53 leaves : paper ; 147 x 98 mm
- Production:
- [Ighil?, Morocco], [17--].
- [איגלא? מרוקו], [17--].
- Language Note:
- Hebrew; certain Piyutim in Judeo-Arabic (such as passages in f. 28v).
- Summary:
- Piyut book, with selections written in over time (and likely into the 19th century), from the Moroccan musical and extraliturgical practice.
- Notes:
- Ms. codex.
- Title supplied by cataloger.
- Layout: Written in single columns of 18-19 lines (both the 18th century and 19th century writing in the manuscript); contents on f. 48r-51v.
- Binding: Modern orange buckram; modern endpapers.
- Origin: Written in Morocco, likely in the Marrakech environs (Ighil autograph; scripts, and content).
- Foliation: Paper, 53; i (modern endpaper) + 53 (manuscript) + i (modern endpaper) ; 19th century foliation in ink, א-לד, upper left recto; modern foliation in lead, 1-53, lower left recto (references in this record to modern foliation only).
- Script: Written in a Moroccan-Sephardic cursive script, in multiple hands (one autograph, Shelomoh Ha-kohen, writing in איגלא (likely Ighil, Morocco, south of Marrakech), on his piyut אני בשינה אומרה על מצה שמורה on f. 14v and dedication to Yosef Ha-levi; his handwriting is on f. 14v-15r, 16v-19v); 19th century portions written in Solitreo cursive scripts; contents written in a Sephardic semicursive script.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Elis & Ruth Douer Endowed Fund.
- Cited as:
- Piyut book (UPenn CAJS Rar Ms 738). Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania.
- OCLC:
- 1456496623
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