Manuscript of occasional prayers in a Cabalistic rite.
כתב-יד תפילות ובקשות לימים שונות, בנוסח מקובלי.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Contributor:

Annenberg Research Institute, former owner.

Language:

Hebrew

Subjects (All):

Cabala--19th century--Liturgy.

Cabala.

Tehinnot.

Manuscripts, Hebrew--Tunisia--19th century--Specimens.

Manuscripts, Hebrew.

Manuscripts, Hebrew--Egypt--19th century--Specimens.

Genre:

Codices (bound manuscripts)

Prayers.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by the Annenberg Research Institute (stamp).

Physical Description:

47 leaves : paper ; 17 x 10 cm

Production:

[Tunisia? Egypt?], [1870?-1899?]

[תוניסיה? מצרים?], [1870?-1899?]

Other Title:

text begins: Tefilah le-omerah aḥar tefilat Shaḥarit : Be-vaḳashah mi-kem Mikhaʼel ṿe-Gavriʼel ṿe-Refaʼel she-taʻamdu bi-tefilah...

Language Note:

In Hebrew.

Summary:

Occassional prayers, mostly tehinnot, as well as daily extraliturgical prayers in an unidentified North African rite; including following Shaḥarit (f. 7r, and prayers for family and sustenance continuing on f. 8v), Tikkun Keri (f. 12r), a meditation to follow the Blessing of the Priests (Birkat Kohanim; f. 14v), upon binding the Lulav (palm branch) on Sukkot (f. 15r; Sukkot prayers continue until f. 18r), a prayer to follow Shaḥarit by Yosef Hayyim David Azulai (f. 19r), following Psalmody (f. 20r), and verses to meditate upon the inner soul (f. 37r). Written in a scribal hand, writing in a 19th century Sephardic semicursive hand; captions, versals, and instructional lines written in a square script. Bound behind a printed copy of Sefer Meʻil tsedaḳah ([Pisa] : Nella Stamparia Fua, Con Sovrana Permisione, 5545 [that is, 1784 or 1785]; see the record for that printed book).

Notes:

Title supplied by cataloger.

Cited as:

Manuscript of occasional prayers in a Cabalistic rite (UPenn CAJS Rar Ms 728). Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania.

Contains:

Azulai, Hayyim Joseph David, 1724-1806.

Azulai, Hayyim Joseph David, 1724-1806, Ye-hi ratson., attributed name.

OCLC:

1452988139