Maḥzor for the High Holidays : rite of Yemen ; manuscript.
מחזור לימים נוראים : נוסח תימן.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Elis & Ruth Douer Endowed Fund. PU

Contributor:

Elis & Ruth Douer Endowed Fund.

הנובר, נתן נטע.

Standardized Title:

Maḥzor (Yemen). High Holidays.

התרת נדרים.

Language:

Aramaic

Hebrew

Subjects (All):

Maḥzor. High Holidays--Liturgical use--Yemen (Republic)--18th century.

Maḥzor.

Seliḥot--Liturgical use--Yemen (Republic)--18th century.

Seliḥot.

Piyutim.

Manuscripts, Hebrew--Yemen (Republic)--18th century--Specimens.

Manuscripts, Hebrew.

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Refa'eli Auctions (Jerusalem), 2022.

Inscribed in blue pen by Mussabeeb(?) ("מאסיבוב"; f. 1r).

Physical Description:

118 leaves : paper ; 17 x 12 cm

Production:

[Yemen], [17--]

[תימן], [17--]

Language Note:

In Hebrew; some Seliḥot in Aramaic.

Summary:

Yemenite High Holiday Maḥzor, with some additions; content covers Seliḥot (called Ashmorot in this manuscript), Rosh ha-Shanah, and Yom Kippur prayers. The Hatarat Nedarim (annulment of vows before a assembly of three, a custom practiced on the eve of Rosh ha-Shanah; f. 20r-22r) contains additional text taken from Shaʻare Tsiyon (by Nathan Nata Hannover) for the Nezifah (declarative self-torment for sins committed) and an additional paragraph called אתה הבדלת אנוש מראש (including mystical statements: "...ופגמתי בארבע מאות עולמות שקל כסף וגרמתי להלביש שמים שק ונתתי כח לעשו וארבע מאות איש עמו..."; f. 20v). The service for the blowing of the Shofar shows instructional lineforms for the blasts ("תשרת תשת תרת"; f. 63r); the liturgy of Yom Kippur is out of order (possibly indicating variant rites which would select portions of the liturgy; the note following the piyut on the final folio indicates this was intended by the scribe), including the ʻAvodah service (in the Yemeni rite, with Ibn Gabirol's ארוממך חזקי וחלקי (f. 78v) and the anonymous אתה כוננת עולם מראש (f. 79v). Written in a Yemenite semicursive script, vocalized, in a scribal hand; captions written in a Yemenite square script; instructions written in minuscules; catchwords, each followed by a pen flourish; sections with designs and overlining above captions. Bound in modern blind-tooled faux-leather.

Contents:

1. f.1r-22r: Ashmorot

2. f. 22r-31v: ʻArvit le-Rosh ha-Shanah

3. f. 31v-56v: Shaḥarit [alternatively Yotser] le-Rosh ha-Shanah

4. f. 56v-60r: Tefilat Rosh ha-Shanah

5. f. 60r-63v: Le-teḳiʻat shofar

6. f. 63v-69r: Tefilat Musaf le-R.H.

7. f. 69v: ʻAśeret yeme teshuvah

8. f. 70r-118v: Yom Kippur.

Notes:

Title supplied by cataloger.

Local Notes:

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

Cited as:

Maḥzor for the High Holidays : rite of Yemen (UPenn CAJS Rar Ms 734). Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania.

Contains:

Hannover, Nathan Nata, -1683. Shaʻare Tsiyon.

Ibn Gabirol, active 11th century. Keter malkhut.

Hatarat nedarim.

הנובר, נתן נטע. שערי ציון.

התרת נדרים.

OCLC:

1455501378