Marriage and circumcision service : use of Yemen ; manuscript.
סדר אירוסין וברית מילה : מנהג תימן.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Elis & Ruth Douer Endowed Fund. PU

Contributor:

Elis & Ruth Douer Endowed Fund.

Krupp, Michael, former owner.

שלמה בן סלם.

Language:

Hebrew

Judeo-Arabic

Subjects (All):

Jewish marriage customs and rites--Yemen (Republic)--19th century.

Jewish marriage customs and rites.

Manuscripts, Hebrew--Yemen (Republic)--19th century--Specimens.

Manuscripts, Hebrew.

Manuscripts, Judeo-Arabic--Yemen (Republic)--19th century--Specimens.

Manuscripts, Judeo-Arabic.

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

Penn Provenance:

An inscription in a later hand follows the text for the birth of a boy named Shimʻon, during the year 2232 of the Seleucid Era (1920 or 1921).

Formerly in the manuscript collection of Michael Krupp, Jerusalem (stamp, inside front board; former call number MS. Heb. 374); cataloged at the National Library of Israel as JER KRUPP 374.

Sold by Kedem Auctions, Jerusalem, 2022.

Physical Description:

14 leaves : paper ; 18 x 12 cm + [3] notes.

Production:

[Yemen], [between 1800-1850].

[תימן], [בין 1800-1850].

Other Title:

text begins: Nusaḥ Birkhat erusin ṿe-niśuʼin ṿe-zeh hi

text begins: נוסח ברכת אירוסין ונישואין וזה היא

Language Note:

Text in Hebrew, with sentences of instruction in Judeo-Arabic.

Summary:

Personal manuscript book for officiant for weddings and circumcisions, in Yemen; laws and instructions precede the ceremonies, and the wedding ceremony contains an address with blessings to the couple ("ועליך החתן הזה יתקיים מ"ש ה' בעזך ישמח מלך..", and each connected paragraph of the oration begins with ועליך החתן). The circumcision ceremony contains an oration as well (with select sentences partially vocalized with the Babylonian supra-linear vocalization; "אלופים שאננים כלל שרי עברים השונים בהלכות במסכתות וסדרים וכל טעמי התורה ודקדוקי סופרים..."; identified by the scribe as authored by Shelomoh ben Salem; f. 6v-7r). Three contemporary notes in different hands are bound in to the end of the manuscript (additional piyutim). Bound in contemporary faux-leather boards (spine blind-tooled; panel with the Decalogue on back board, bound upside-down; boards worn, chipped, and corners rounded from use).

Contents:

1. f.1r-6r: [Wedding ceremony]

2. f.6v-12r: [Circumcision ceremony]

3. f.12r-14v: [Blessing after the circumcision feast, and piyutim].

1. f.1r-6r: [סדר נישואין]

2. f.6v-12r: [סדר ברית מילה]

3. f.12r-14v: [ברכות ופיוטים אחר סדר ברית מילה].

Notes:

Title supplied by cataloger; romanization supplied by cataloger.

Local Notes:

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

Cited as:

Marriage and circumcision service : use of Yemen (UPenn CAJS Rar Ms 713). Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania.

Contains:

Shelomoh ben Salem. Alufim shaʼananim.

שלמה בן סלם. אלופים שאננים.

OCLC:

1446456611