Siddur : use of Ṣanʻāʼ ; manuscript.
סדור :‏ מנהג צענא.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Contributor:

Elis & Ruth Douer Endowed Fund.

Saʻadyah Shelomoh Kohen, former owner.

Standardized Title:

Siddur (Yemen)

סידור (תימן)

תיקון חצות.

קרית שמע על המיטה.

Language:

Aramaic

Hebrew

Subjects (All):

Tsefat (Israel)--16th century--Religious life and customs.

Tsefat (Israel).

Siddur--Liturgical use--Yemen (Republic)--Ṣanʻāʼ.

Siddur.

Maḥzor. High Holidays--Liturgical use--Yemen (Republic)--Ṣanʻāʼ.

Maḥzor.

Piyutim.

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, Hebrew -- 16th century.

Manuscripts, Hebrew -- 17th century.

Penn Provenance:

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

Formerly owned by Saʻadyah Shelomoh Kohen (inscription, front free-end: "כה וקנה זה הספר סעדיה שלמה כהן הב"ו והגו' ימח באב"ת").

Physical Description:

201 leaves : paper ; 15 x 10 cm

Production:

Ṣanʻāʼ, Yemen, after 1585-1650?

[צנעא, תימן], [אחר 1585 -1650?]

Language Note:

In Hebrew; some instructions in Judeo-Arabic.

Summary:

Manuscript prayerbook, in the Ṣanʻāʼ rite (place of writing on f. 178v), influenced by the cabalistic movement in Safed (Tsefat, Israel) of the late 16th century; the text begins with Tikkun ḥaẓot (the first four leaves are from a later manuscript, and the piyut דודי ירד לגנו by Ḥayyim ben Abraham ha-Kohen of Aleppo (approximately 1585-1655, quoted as deceased (f. 1r), dating terminus post quem) though the main manuscript was likely written toward the beginning of the 17th century (based on the script and rite; the note preceding Kabbalat Shabbat indicates that this copy was made closer to its introduction into Yemen ("ויש מהן שהולכין מחוץ לעיר כל א' כפי הכנת ממקומו...", f. 51r; Solomon Alkabetz's Lekha Dodi is introduced with a note that he was deceased, thus date terminus post quem; and Bedtime Shema in the custom of Moses Cordovero) and a note following Kiddush for the first night of Passover states that the author copied and abridged Joseph Karo's Shulḥan ʻarukh, possibly while he was living (f. 190r: "כפי מה שכתוב בקונדריס שהעתקתי ממנו..."). Following the Sabbath liturgy is Tefilat ha-derekh, liturgy for the fasts (including Ninth of Av and Kinot (with Deuteronomy XXXII in this rite, written ritually in opposing columns (f. 99r-100v); then High Holidays liturgy (with Mishnah, Yoma, and Ibn Gabirol's Keter malkhut, with the contemporary addendum by Yihyeh al-Shahari (died 1583; f. 157r), Hoshanot, and Passover Haggadah. Written in a Yemenite semicursive script, vocalized (text) and captions and titles written in Sephardic-Middle Eastern calligraphic square script; headings and captions overlined; marginalia with instructions and annotations. Bound in a full-leather binding, blind-tooled.

Notes:

Title supplied by cataloger.

Local Notes:

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

Cited as:

Siddur : Use of Ṣanʻāʼ (UPenn CAJS Rar Ms 735). Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania.

Contains:

Ibn Gabirol, active 11th century. Keter malkhut.

Tikkun ḥaẓot.

Bedtime Shema.

תיקון חצות.

קרית שמע על המיטה.

OCLC:

1455503490