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Title

Seliḥot.
[סליחות]

Authors

• Moldovan Family Judaica Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Other related names

• Moldovan, Joseph, donor
• Moldovan, Susan, donor

Call number

CAJS Rar Ms 492
(420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19106-3703, University of Pennsylvania, Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9977510916903681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1098216278

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Date

1700?-1750?

Place

Provence

Summary

This is a manuscript containing Seliḥot for the Rosh ha-Shanah service and some meant for the morning preceding Yom Kippur, all in a Provençal custom. This minhag follows the Sefardic custom of reciting Seliḥot as on one of the other Days of Repentance (see R. Isaac ben Sheshet Perfet, Teshuvot ha-Rivash, number 512) and it may follow the ruling of R. Hai Gaon (see "Teshuvot geʼone mizraḥ u-maʻarav", ed. Müller (Berlin: P. Deutsch, 1888), no. 122); this is distinct from the practice of Ashkenazim, who do not recite Seliḥot on Rosh ha-Shanah (see R. Jacob b. Asher, Ṭur ḥeleḳ Oraḥ Ḥayim, siman 602). The manuscript was intended to accompany a Maḥzor or another prayer book, as generally the standard prayers are either skipped or written in fine script while the focus is the piyutim for the Seliḥot. The headings of the piyutim include Seliḥah, Pizmon, Al-khrug (a Sefardic nomenclature; perhaps this is related to the Arabic al-khurūj), Miḥyeh, Siluḳ, and Rehuṭah. The manuscript had blank pages at the end, in which the Musaf prayer was written later by another hand (f. 91v). Since the begining of the manuscript is missing, the specific rite is unknown.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   
• Disbound; heavy wear and staining. Many leaves detached from sewing. Heavily water damaged and faded.
   

Extent

96 leaves : 200 x 140 (155 x 112) mm

Collation

Paper, 96; 1 leaf, 1¹⁰ 2¹⁴ 3¹⁰ 4¹⁵ (+1) 5-7¹⁴, 4 leaves; modern foliation in pencil, lower left recto, 1-96.

Support

Paper

Layout

19-22 long lines; for poetic works (such as f. 11r-12v), the stanzas are in the center and the refrain is at the corners in large script. Quarto format.

Script

Written in a Sefardic cursive script; headings written in a large bold Sefardic cursive.

Provenance

• Presented to The Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joseph and Susan Moldovan (C'76).
   

Subjects topical

• Jews--France--Provence--18th century

Genres

• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Prayer books
• Fragments (object portions)
• Manuscripts, Hebrew--18th century
• Manuscripts, European

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