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Casablanca piyut book for Passover : manuscript.
ספר פיוטים לפסח מקזבלאנקא.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts CAJS Rar Ms 770
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- Format:
- Book
- Manuscript
- Language:
- Aramaic
- French
- Hebrew
- Judeo-Arabic
- Ladino
- Subjects (All):
- Passover--Liturgy--Texts.
- Passover.
- Piyutim.
- Haftarot--Liturgical use--Morocco--Casablanca--19th century.
- Haftarot.
- Manuscripts, Spanish--Morocco--Casablanca--19th century--Specimens.
- Manuscripts, Spanish.
- Manuscripts, Judeo-Arabic--Morocco--Casablanca--19th century--Specimens.
- Manuscripts, Judeo-Arabic.
- Manuscripts, Hebrew--Morocco--Casablanca--19th century--Specimens.
- Manuscripts, Hebrew.
- Genre:
- Hymns.
- Manuscripts.
- Codices (bound manuscripts)
- Penn Provenance:
- Autograph of Joshua Ben Shalom on final free-end, in ink.
- Formerly owned by Gérard Asckinazi, 1557 East 9th Street, 11230 N.Y. Brooklyn (paper sheet left inside, on stationery of Communaute Israelite, Casablanca, Rue A. Lecouvreur).
- Sold by Mizrahi Bookstore (Brooklyn, N.Y.), 2023; formerly in the Yosef Goldman Collection (Israel Mizrahi).
- Physical Description:
- 37 leaves : paper ; 16 x 11 cm
- Production:
- Casablanca, 1850?-1899?
- Language Note:
- In Ladino, Judeo-Arabic, and Hebrew; Haftarah written in Hebrew and with Aramaic Targum (f. 6r-8r, and f. 12r-16r, that text translated to Ladino as well); words in French ("Piut", f. 18v, autograph, and place on f. 34v-35r).
- Summary:
- Piyut book and customal for the Seventh and Eighth days of Passover, for use in Casablanca, Morocco, including texts of the Haftarah for both days (Seventh day of Passover, where II Samuel XXII was recited with the Targum, on f. 6r-8r, and on the Eighth day of Passover, where Isaiah X:32-XII:4 was recited with Targum, and a Ladino adaptation) and piyutim on each theme (Song of David, and the prophecy of Sennacherib, respectively). Piyutim include שמע בני מוסר אביך חג המצות תעשה לך, by Jacob ibn Ẓur (f. 18r), מר לי מר לי מר לגדודיך מר לי מר (f. 21r), and אשאל אל כביר יורת מתי (f. 18v). Written in a Solitreo cursive script, in different hands and inks; disbound, with ink and water stains.
- Notes:
- Ms. codex.
- Title devised by cataloger.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Elis & Ruth Douer Endowed Fund.
- Cited as:
- Casablanca piyut book for Passover (UPenn CAJS Rar Ms 770). Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania.
- Contains:
- Bible. Samuel, 2nd. XXII.
- Bible. Isaiah, X:32-XII:4.
- Bible. Isaiah, X:32-XII:4. Ladino.
- Bible. Samuel. Aramaic. Targum Jonathan. Selections.
- Bible. Isaiah. Aramaic. Targum Jonathan. Selections.
- OCLC:
- 1501130982
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