Yemenite Diwan : manuscript.
דיוואן-תימני.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Shabazi, Shalem, 1619-1686, compiler.

Contributor:

Saʻid, Yosef ben Yiḥye, former owner.

Al-Ḳaṿali, Yosef ben Yiḥye, scribe.

Goldman, Yosef, former owner.

Shabazi, Shalem, 1619-1686.

Standardized Title:

Diṿan. Manuscript.

Language:

Hebrew

Judeo-Arabic

Subjects (All):

Sabbath--Liturgy.

Manuscripts, Hebrew--Yemen (Republic)--20th century--Specimens.

Manuscripts, Judeo-Arabic--Yemen (Republic)--20th century--Specimens.

Genre:

Manuscripts.

Penn Provenance:

Purchased from Mizrahi Bookstore (Brooklyn, N.Y.), 2024; formerly owned by collector Yosef Goldman (Israel Mizrahi).

Physical Description:

58 leaves : paper ; 25 x 9 cm

Production:

[Yemen], [1926 July]

Other Title:

title page begins: Atḥil li-khetov zeh ha-sefer ha-niḳrah be-l[eshon] ʻA[ravi] Diṿan shirot naʼot, mi-maʼamare kevod u-maʻalat ha-rav ha-muvhaḳ ... Shalom ben ... Yosef Shabazi ze.le-h.h. ...

אתחיל לכתוב זה הספר הנקרא בל"ע דיואן שירות נאות, ממאמרי כבוד ומעלת הרב המובהק ... שלום בן ... יוסף שבזי זלה"ה ...

Language Note:

In Hebrew and Judeo-Arabic.

Summary:

Manuscript copy of Shalem Shabazi's Diṿan, created for Yosef ben Yiḥye Saʻid, Av 2238 of the Minyan sheṭarot [the Seleucid Era count, used by Yemenite Jewry], or July 1926, by Yosef ben Yiḥye Al-Ḳaṿali.

Contents:

Mafteaḥ le-ṭanuj Shabat

Mafteaḥ nashud

Mafteaḥ al-shirot.

Notes:

Title devised by cataloger.

Written in a Yemenite semicursive script, with overlining on captions; scribal autograph on f. 5v.

Title page with hatched ink border (red and black inks), with caption overlined in red.

Cited as:

Yemenite Diwan (UPenn CAJS Rar Ms 796). Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania.

Related Work:

Shabazi, Shalem, 1619-1686. Diṿan http://viaf.org/viaf/175064464

OCLC:

1550524681