Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Haggadah, use of Yemen ;
הגדה של פסח : מנהג תימן

Call number

CAJS Rar Ms 717
(420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19106-3703, University of Pennsylvania, Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9978091521403681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1449645829
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/1229047

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Text in Hebrew; some instruction, and a preliminary prayer in Judeo-Arabic (f. 4r-6r)

Origin

Date

between 1800?-1850?

Place

Yemen

Notes

• Title supplied by cataloger.
   
• Item disbound; wine stains across folios and edges; worn from use.
   

Extent

24 leaves : 13 x 10 cm

Support

Paper

Provenance

• Sold by Kedem Auctions, Jerusalem, 2022.
   

Subjects topical

• Passover--Liturgy--Texts
• Manuscripts, Hebrew--Yemen (Republic)--19th century--Specimens
• Manuscripts, Judeo-Arabic--Yemen (Republic)--19th century--Specimens
• Yemen (Republic)--19th century--Religious life and customs

Genres

• codices (bound manuscripts)
• Haggadot (Liturgical books)

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — Cabalistic preliminary prayer
• fol. 3r — Passover Seder liturgy
• fol. 26v — Beginning of the Song of Solomon