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

Title

Corfu Pizmon book.
[ספר פזמונים כמנהג קורפו]

Call number

CAJS Rar Ms 721
(420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19106-3703, University of Pennsylvania, Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9979335222803681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1451464563
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/1229058 https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3wd3r375

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Hebrew; one poem with Ladino text (f. 34r-v)

Origin

Date

1700-1750

Place

Kerkyra, Greece?

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   

Extent

58 leaves : 135 x 104 (100 x 78) mm bound to 140 x 104 mm

Support

Paper

Binding

Marbled paper on boards, with a leather spine (circa 19th century).

Layout

Written in thirteen lines (most pizmonim; pizmon on f. 44r-45v written in 17-18 lines), blind-ruled (column and line); some folios with double columns (such as f. 43r, ruled in center in ink).

Script

Written in an 18th century square script, with captions written in a larger square script; one note written in a Sephardic cursive script (f. 50r).

Provenance

• Sold by Taj Art (Jerusalem), 2023.
   

Subjects topical

• Sephardim--Greece--Kerkyra--18th century--Hymns
• Piyutim--Liturgical use--Greece--Kerkyra--18th century
• Manuscripts, Hebrew--Greece--Kerkyra--18th century--Specimens
• Piyyuṭim

Genres

• Hymns
• codices (bound manuscripts)
• Manuscripts, European
• codices (bound manuscripts)
• Piyutim

Licenses

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