Selections from the Yemenite Maḥzor, for Sukkot, Shemini ʻatseret, and Śimḥat Torah : manuscript.
קטעים ממחזור תימן, סוכות, שמיני עצרת, ושמחת תורה.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Elis & Ruth Douer Endowed Fund. PU

Contributor:

Elis & Ruth Douer Endowed Fund.

Standardized Title:

Maḥzor (Yemen). Sukkot

מחזור (תימן). סכות.

Language:

Aramaic

Hebrew

Subjects (All):

Maḥzor. Sukkot--Liturgical use--Yemen (Republic)--18th century.

Maḥzor.

Maḥzor. Shemini ʻatseret--Liturgical use--Yemen (Republic)--18th century.

Maḥzor. Simḥat Torah--Liturgical use--Yemen (Republic)--18th century.

Manuscripts, Hebrew--Yemen (Republic)--18th century--Specimens.

Manuscripts, Hebrew.

Manuscripts, Aramaic--Yemen (Republic)--18th century--Specimens.

Manuscripts, Aramaic.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Prime Judaica (Lakewood, N.J.), December 2023.

Physical Description:

2 leaves : paper ; 18 x 12 cm

Production:

[Yemen], [17--].

[תימן], [17--].

Language Note:

In Hebrew; the communal prayer is in Aramaic (f. 1r-v).

Summary:

Two leaves separated from an 18th century manuscript Taklil (the Yemenite liturgy) from the part of Sukkot, Shemini ʻatseret, and Śimḥat Torah; the first folio is the completion of the Shemini ʻatseret Musaf introduction, and the prayer for unity and for scholars and teachers (titled "ברכה זו לרבים" in this manuscript; known as the Yekum purkan, an Aramaic prayer composed around 875, this version is lengthened for the Shemini ʻatseret). The second folio is the prayer for rain (Tefilat Geshem) and continues until the bottom of f. 2r, and f. 2v is instructions and Haftarah context for Shemini ʻatseret, and the beginning of the liturgy for Śimḥat Torah. Written in an 18th century Yemenite semicursive script; captions written in a Yemenite square script.

Notes:

Title supplied by cataloger.

Local Notes:

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

Cited as:

Selections from the Yemenite Maḥzor, for Sukkot, Shemini ʻatseret, and Śimḥat Torah (UPenn CAJS Rar Ms 719). Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania.

Contains:

Yekum purkan.

Tefilat Geshem.

OCLC:

1450317473