[Rosh ha-Shanah miscellany : rite of Yemen.]
[תפילות לראש השנה : נוסח תימן].

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Contributor:

Colker, Marvin L., former owner.

Abraham ben Isaac Hazzan, of Girona.

אברהם בן יצחק חזן, מגירונה.

Standardized Title:

Maḥzor (Yemen).

מחזור תימן.

אבינו מלכנו.

Language:

Hebrew

Subjects (All):

Rosh ha-Shanah--Liturgy--Texts--Liturgical use--Yemen (Republic).

Rosh ha-Shanah.

Shavuot--Liturgy--Texts--Liturgical use--Yemen (Republic).

Shavuot.

Genre:

Codices (bound manuscripts)

Prayers.

Devotional literature.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by Marvin L. Colker, cataloger of manuscripts at Trinity College Dublin and professor of classics at the University of Virgina (former call number Colker MS 10); purchased by Colker from Kaniel, Jerusalem, in 1976 (Christie's).

Sold by Christie's London, Online auction 21173 (November 28, 2022) as part of the collection of Marvin L. Colker.

Physical Description:

3 leaves : paper ; 156 x 100 mm bound to 162 x 119 mm.

Other Title:

Tiʻanu ṿe-tiʻataru min ha-shamayim.

תיענו ותיעתרו מן השמים.

Place of Publication:

[Yemen], [1750?-1799?].

[תימן], [1750?-1799?].

Language Note:

Hebrew.

Summary:

This is a manuscript miscellany of the Yemenite Maḥzor, written as a liturgical miscellany (possibly used to augment the Siddur); the first prayer is Aḥot ḳeṭanah by Abraham of Girona (13th century) on f. 1r-v; then Avinu Malkenu (f. 1v-2v); and a prayer augmenting the Kaddish following the repetition of the Amidah (קדיש תתקבל) by the chazzan (f. 2v); this prayer is recited in the Sephardic and Yemenite Maḥzorim on High Holidays at the completion of the Amidah repetition. A leaf with Psalms VXIX, to be recited on the eve of Shavuot, is bound in at the end (from a slightly older manuscript).

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title supplied by cataloger.

Collation: Paper, 3; iii (modern endpapers) + 1² +1 leaf (from another codex) + iii (modern endpapers); modern foliation in pencil, 1-3, lower left recto.

Layout: Written in single columns of 21 lines (prayers); Avinu Malkenu prayer written in a repetitive acrostic form (aligning the stanzas on the right sides); catchwords; tapered column (f. 2v).

Script: Written in a Yemenite cursive script, with paragraph openings written in a Yemenite square script; Shavuot prayers vocalized (f. 3).

Decoration: Overlining in red (f. 3r).

Binding: Late 20th century faux alligator leather; linen spine; grey thick stock endpapers; white ribbon divider.

Origin: Written in Yemen, likely during the later 18th century; f. 3 possibly written in the beginning of the 18th century.

Related Collections:

Another manuscript Yemenite Maḥzor, also from the 18th century, with a similar script and layout, is UPenn CAJS Rar Ms 555.

Cited as:

Rosh ha-Shanah miscellany : rite of Yemen (UPenn CAJS Rar Ms 616). Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania

Related Work:

Abraham ben Isaac Hazzan, of Girona. Aḥot ḳeṭanah.

אברהם בן יצחק חזן, מגירונה. אחות קטנה.

OCLC:

1372186792