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Bakashot book, use of Aleppo : manuscript.
ספר בקשות, מנהג ארם צובה.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts CAJS Rar Ms 781
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- Format:
- Book
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Taboush, Raphael Antebi, -1918, author, associated name.
- Language:
- Hebrew
- Judeo-Arabic
- Subjects (All):
- Piyutim--Liturgical use--Syria--Aleppo--19th century.
- Piyutim.
- Fasts and feasts--Judaism.
- Fasts and feasts.
- Jews--Syria--Aleppo--19th century--History--Sources.
- Jews.
- Manuscripts, Hebrew--Syria--Aleppo--19th century--Specimens.
- Manuscripts, Hebrew.
- Genre:
- Jewish chants
- Hymnals.
- Hymn texts.
- codices (bound manuscripts)
- calligraphy (visual works)
- Manuscripts.
- Penn Provenance:
- Sold by Winner's Auction's (Jerusalem), Auction 137 (14 July 2022) lot 127 (Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Elis & Ruth Douer Endowed Fund).
- Physical Description:
- 240 leaves : paper ; 14 x 10 cm
- Production:
- [Aleppo, Syria], [1893?-1899]
- [ארם צובה], [1893?-1899?]
- Language Note:
- Hebrew; some hymn captions in Judeo-Arabic.
- Biography/History:
- Moses Ashear (1877-1940; originally Ashkar ha-Kohen), born in Aleppo, studied music and composition under Raphael Antebi Taboush (and transcribed many of his hymns, as Taboush was blind); appointed Hazan at Aleppo's Central Synagogue in 1903; emigrated to New York in 1912, later appointed as Hazan at the Syrian-Jewish Magen David Synagogue in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, New York until his death; Ashear continued the Aleppo liturgical rites and traditions for the Syrian-Jewish community in New York, including bringing the Aleppo custom of Bakashot and pizmonim.
- Summary:
- Book of Bakashot according to the late 19th century custom of Aleppo, associated with the Aleppo hymnist Raphael Antebi Taboush (1853-1918; written in the hand of his student, Moses Ashear; autograph on f. 223r), likely written circa 1893; many of the compositions are by Raphael Antebi Taboush (sometimes under the composer's name Rafaʼel ʻAdes).
- Notes:
- Title supplied by cataloger.
- Written in a Syrian-Sephardic cursive script; initial words and highlights written in a Sephardic square script (black ink outline, filled with orange paint inside letters). Contemporary printed stickers pasted on select blanks.
- Arranged in Arabic Maqām, in Hebrew charachters (in order of Rast, Mahur, Nahawand (including occassionals : תכון לעד יפה, by "Avraham", for the Tsedaḳah u-marpe sick society of Aleppo, and Taboush's לעיר חנה דורשה דודי for Ḥevrat Bene Yiśraʼel; f. 46r), Sikah, Ajam (אוג'), Iraq, Sasgar, Saba, Mehayar, Bayat, Hoseni, and Hijaz. The piyut ישא ברכה ותהלה was composed for the Rishon le-Tsiyon Yaakov Shaul Elyashar (1817-1906) upon his assuming the office folowing the death of Raphael Meir Panigel in 1893 (f. 116r); other Bakashot are compositions of Yaʻaḳov Sukari, Mosheh Jamal, and Eliyahu Ḥaver.
- Cited as:
- Bakashot book, use of Aleppo (UPenn CAJS Rar Ms 781). Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania.
- OCLC:
- 1546493742
- Online:
- The Elis & Ruth Douer Endowed Fund Home Page
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