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Title

Festival piyutim : use of Meknès ;
פיוטים לחגים, מנהג מכנס

Other related names

• Sperber, Daniel, former owner
• David ben Aaron ibn Ḥassin, approximately 1730-1792, compiler
  דוד בן חסין.
• David ben Aaron ibn Ḥassin, approximately 1730-1792, author
  דוד בן חסין.
• ibn Ḥassin, Yehoshuaʻ, scribe
  אבן חסין, יהושע.

Call number

CAJS RAR Ms 722
(420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19106-3703, University of Pennsylvania, Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9977702051203681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1452121162
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/1229047 https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3125rb9t

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

In Hebrew

Origin

Date

Nisan-Sivan 5666, that is, February-May, 1906

Place

Poh Mekhnese y.ʻa.E. Meknès, Morocco

Notes

• Title supplied by cataloger.
   
• Torn folio stubs between f. 1-2 show missing folios (f. 2r is the tuǧra and motto of Ḥanokh ibn Ḥassin, suggesting that this section may have been of Ḥassin family tuǧras).
   

Extent

45 leaves : 17 x 12 cm

Support

Paper

Provenance

• Formerly owned by rabbi and author Daniel Sperber (Kedem).
   
• Sold by Kedem Auctions (Jerusalem), Auction 71 (May 2020) as part of the library of Daniel Sperber.
   

Subjects topical

• Piyutim--Liturgical use--Morocco--Meknès--20th century
• Manuscripts, Hebrew--Morocco--Meknès--20th century--Specimens

Genres

• codices (bound manuscripts)
• tuǧras
• Hymns

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 3r — Piyutim for Passover
• fol. 20r — Piyutim for Sukkot
• fol. 29v — Piyutim for Shavuot
• fol. 33r — Azharot for Shavuot
• fol. 38r — Azharot, or extraliturgical piyutim composed for the Biblical Commandments