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Title

Pizmon book : use of Aleppo-Cairo.
ספר פזמונים : מנהג ארם צובה-קאייר

Authors

• ʻAmar, Yaʻaḳov ben Saʻadyah
  עמאר, יעקב בן סעדיה

Other related names

• Wesseg, Mosheh, former owner
  וואששאג, משה.

Call number

CAJS Rar Ms 678
(420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19106-3703, University of Pennsylvania, Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9979067794603681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1417008033
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/1229047

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

In Hebrew; ketubah text in Aramaic (f. 23r) and one pizmon in Judeo-Arabic (f. 77r)

Origin

Date

1850?-1867?

Place

Egypt?

Notes

• Title supplied by cataloger.
   
• 1. Mafteḥot -- 2. Petiḥot -- 3. Pizmonim maḳʼam raśṭ -- 4. Pizmonim maḳʼam mahṿar -- 5. Pizmonim maḳʼam ʻag'am -- 6. Pizmonim maḳʼam sasgar -- 7. Pizmonim maḳʼam iraḳ -- 8. Pizmonim maḳʼam śiga -- 9. Pizmonim maḳʼam og' -- 10. Pizmonim maḳʼam bayat -- 11. Pizmonim maḳʼam ḥoseni -- 12. Pizmonim maḳʼam ʻashiran -- 13. Pizmonim maḳʼam tsava -- 14. Pizmonim maḳʼam naṿah.
   

Extent

77 leaves : 24 x 17 cm

Support

Paper

Provenance

• Sold by Winner's Auctions (Jerusalem), Auction 140 (22 February 2023) item 247.
   

Subjects topical

• Jews, Syrian--19th century--Music
• Jews, Egyptian--19th century--Music
• Jews--Egypt--Banhā--19th century--Music

Genres

• codices (bound manuscripts)
• Manuscripts, Hebrew--19th century
• Manuscripts, Aramaic--19th century
• Manuscripts, Judeo-Arabic--19th century
• Hymn texts

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 23r — Ketubah, issued on 13 Av 5627 [Wednesday, 14 August 1867]
• fol. 67r — Fragment of a pizmon pasted down in early 19th century Moroccan cursive script
• fol. 77r — Scribal signature by Binyamin