Pizmon book : use of Aleppo-Cairo.
ספר פזמונים : מנהג ארם צובה-קאייר.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Contributor:

Wesseg, Mosheh, former owner.

Elis & Ruth Douer Endowed Fund.

עמאר, יעקב בן סעדיה.

וואששאג, משה.

Language:

Aramaic

Hebrew

Judeo-Arabic

Subjects (All):

Jews, Syrian--19th century--Music.

Jews, Syrian.

Jews, Egyptian--19th century--Music.

Jews, Egyptian.

Jews--Egypt--Banhā--19th century--Music.

Jews.

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

Hymn texts.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Winner's Auctions (Jerusalem), Auction 140 (22 February 2023) item 247.

Formerly owned by Mosheh Wesseg (inscriptions, משה וואששאג, in blue ballpoint pen; "WESSEG", front flyleaf).

Physical Description:

77 leaves : paper ; 24 x 17 cm.

Production:

[Egypt?], [1850?-1867?].

[מצרים?], [1850?-1867?].

Language Note:

In Hebrew; ketubah text in Aramaic (f. 23r) and one pizmon in Judeo-Arabic (f. 77r).

Summary:

Book of pizmonim organized by maqam (the Arabic musical mode), sung extra-liturgically (often according to the individual synagogue); the usage originated from Aleppo (and greater Syria) and was adapted by Sephardic communities during this time. The probable Egyptian origin of this manuscript is based upon some varieties of the square scripts (such as f. 7r) and the present text of a ketubah, issued on 13 Av 5627 [Wednesday, 14 August 1867] in בנהא (Banhā el-Assal, Egypt; f. 23r); the manuscript was written in multiple hands, likely over a period of time (one of the scribes, named Binyamin, signed on f. 77r). Many pizmonim written in oriental square scripts, with traced initials (for further coloration) on opening words; pizmon composers and accompanying text mostly written in North African cursive scripts; 20th century additions mostly in blue ink; a fragment of a pizmon pasted on f. 67r in an early 19th century Moroccan cursive script. Folios ruled in lead around script block.

Contents:

1. Mafteḥot

2. Petiḥot

3. Pizmonim maḳʼam raśṭ

4. Pizmonim maḳʼam mahṿar

5. Pizmonim maḳʼam ʻag'am

6. Pizmonim maḳʼam sasgar

7. Pizmonim maḳʼam iraḳ

8. Pizmonim maḳʼam śiga

9. Pizmonim maḳʼam og'

10. Pizmonim maḳʼam bayat

11. Pizmonim maḳʼam ḥoseni

12. Pizmonim maḳʼam ʻashiran

13. Pizmonim maḳʼam tsava

14. Pizmonim maḳʼam naṿah.

Notes:

Title supplied by cataloger.

Local Notes:

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

Cited as:

Pizmon book : use of Aleppo-Cairo. (UPenn CAJS Rar Ms 678). Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania.

Contains:

ʻAmar, Yaʻaḳov ben Saʻadyah. Tokhaḥah.

עמאר, יעקב בן סעדיה. תוכחה.

OCLC:

1417008033