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Haggadah, use of Yemen ; manuscript.
הגדה של פסח : מנהג תימן.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts CAJS Rar Ms 717
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- Format:
- Book
- Manuscript
- Standardized Title:
- Haggadah (Yemen)
- הגדה (תימני)
- הלל.
- נשמת כל חי.
- Language:
- Hebrew
- Judeo-Arabic
- Subjects (All):
- Haggadah--Liturgical use--Yemen (Republic)--19th century.
- Haggadah.
- Passover--Liturgy--Texts.
- Passover.
- Manuscripts, Hebrew--Yemen (Republic)--19th century--Specimens.
- Manuscripts, Hebrew.
- Manuscripts, Judeo-Arabic--Yemen (Republic)--19th century--Specimens.
- Manuscripts, Judeo-Arabic.
- Yemen (Republic)--19th century--Religious life and customs.
- Yemen (Republic).
- Genre:
- codices (bound manuscripts)
- Haggadot (Liturgical books)
- Penn Provenance:
- Sold by Kedem Auctions, Jerusalem, 2022.
- Physical Description:
- 24 leaves : paper ; 13 x 10 cm
- Production:
- Yemen, between 1800?-1850?
- תימן, בין 1800?-1850?
- Language Note:
- Text in Hebrew; some instruction, and a preliminary prayer in Judeo-Arabic (f. 4r-6r).
- Summary:
- Manuscript Haggadah in the Yemenite rite; the essential manuscript covers the Passover Seder liturgy (f. 3r-23r; the first 2 folios and final folio are from another manuscript); written in a Yemenite scribal cursive hand, vocalized; captions written in a scribal Yemenite square script, with red overlining above letters. First two folios are of a cabalistic preliminary prayer ("רבש"ע אתה יודע כי בשר אנחנו ואין בנו ולא בשום בריה כח להשיג מעלתיך...") and final folio beginning of the Song of Solomon (ending with כאהלי קדר כיריעות שלמה : אל [תראוני]).
- Notes:
- Title supplied by cataloger.
- Item disbound; wine stains across folios and edges; worn from use.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Elis & Ruth Douer Endowed Fund.
- Cited as:
- Haggadah : use of Yemen (UPenn CAJS Rar Ms 717). Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania.
- Contains:
- Hallel.
- Nishmat kol ḥai.
- הלל.
- נשמת כל חי.
- OCLC:
- 1449645829
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