[Seliḥot, for use of the Jewish community of Altschottland, commemorating 21 Kislev].
[סליחות לקהילת אלטשאטטלאנד, אודות אירועת כ"א כסלו].

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Language:

Hebrew

Subjects (All):

Seliḥot--Liturgical use--Poland--Nowe Szkoty--19th century--Specimens.

Seliḥot.

Seliḥot--Liturgical use--Poland--Gdańsk--19th century--Specimens.

Austrian Succession, War of, 1740-1748--Campaigns--Czech Republic--Religious aspects.

Austrian Succession, War of, 1740-1748.

Manuscripts, Hebrew--Poland--Nowe Szkoty--19th century--Specimens.

Manuscripts, Hebrew.

Manuscripts, Hebrew--Poland--Gdańsk--19th century--Specimens.

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, European.

Penn Provenance:

Sold to the Penn Libraries by JCL Antiques (London), 2024.

Physical Description:

10 leaves : parchment ; 160 x 110 (150 x 98) mm bound to 166 x 113 mm.

Other Title:

title page: Seliḥot shel 21 Kisleṿ, ha-shayakh le-Ḥavurah ḳadisha G.Ḥ. de-ḳ.ḳ. Shoṭṭland ; naʻaśah ʻa.y. alufe ha-gabaʼim de-ḳ. G.Ḥ. ha-to' mo. Gershon, ṿeha-to' mo.ha-r. Yaḳob be.r.I., [5]584

title page: סליחות של כ"א כסליו השייך לחבורה קדישא ג"ח דק"ק שאטטלאנד ; נעשה ע"י אלופי הגבאין דק' ג"ח התו' מו' גרשון : והתו' מוהר יאקב בר"י, תקפ"ד

Place of Publication:

Shoṭṭland, [5]584.

שאטטלאנד, תקפ"ד.

Language Note:

Hebrew.

Summary:

The 21 Kislev Seliḥot in manuscript, used by descendants of those affected by the destructive pogrom on 26-27 November 1744 at the Prussian Army incursion into the Prague Jewish Quarter (recounted in a contemporary manuscript, Jewish Museum of Prague Ms 41 (paginated as p. 34; reprinted in Lieben, S.L., Handschriftliches zur Geschichte der Juden in Prag in den Jahren 1744-1754 (Frankfurt: J. Kauffmann, 1905); other manuscript copies contain ownership inscriptions and other indications that the refugees from the crises settled in the Danzig Jewish communities of not just Altschottland - Weinberg (today Winnicka) and Langfuhr (Wrzeszcz) - see the JTS manuscript, front flyleaf, as an example.

Contents:

1. f. 2v-3r: El melekh yoshev

2. f. 3v: Elekha Y. shiṿaʻati / Zevadiyah

3. f. 4r: Aznekha haṭeh ṿe-haḳshev / Yitsḥaḳ

4. f. 4v: Ezʻaḳ el Elohim ḳoli / Shelomoh Naʻaman Ha-ḳaṭan

5. f. 5r: Shokhne bate ḥomer / ibn Gabirol, Solomon

6. f. 5v: Ezkerah yom moti

7. f. 6r: Ezon taḥan ṿe-hasket ʻatirah

8. f. 6v: Ezkerah Elohim ṿe-ehemayah / Amittai ben Shefatiah

9. f. 7r-v: El har ha-mor givʻat horayah / Meir ben Isaac Sheliʼaḥ Ẓibbur

10. f. 7v-8r: El na refa na taḥluʼe gefen poriyah.

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title supplied by cataloger.

Collation: Parchment, 10 + i (contemporary endpaper); 1-5²; contemporary foliation in ink, starting on f. 4r, 2,3,4,5,6, upper left recto; modern foliation in pencil, 1-10, lower left recto, starting on title page (references in this record to modern foliation only); f. 1v-2r blank.

Layout: Written in 19-23 lines, in various liturgical and poetic layouts, blind-ruled; opening words built-in to column lines.

Script: Written in a Ashkenazic square script, vocalized, possibly by two different hands (f. 1r-8r, and f. 8r-10v); some opening lines written in Ashkenazic square minuscule, others in Sephardic semicursive scripts.

Binding: Contemporary speckled calf, blind-paneled; last endpaper surviving (blue-grey paper).

Origin: Written in "Shoṭṭland", the town of Altschottland (then in Prussia, after 1814; today Stare Szkoty, a neighborhood in the north of the city of Gdańsk, Poland), for the gabbaim of the Hevrah Kadisha and communal charity officials Gershon and Jakob ben I. (surnames not specified).

Related Collections:

Another parchment manuscript of the Altschottland Seliḥot for 21 Kislev, dated 5585 (1824-1825), is Jewish Theological Seminary of America, MS 4050 (SHF 1557:18)

Another parchment manuscript of the Altschottland Seliḥot for 21 Kislev, dated 5582 (1821-1822), was sold at Taj Art Auctions 5, with an illustration of the gravestone of Judah Loew ben Bezalel (approximately 1525-1609)

Cited as:

Seliḥot, for use of the Jewish Community of Altschottland, commemorating 21 Kislev (UPenn CAJS Rar Ms 724). Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania.

OCLC:

1452755609