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Title

Yemenite Diwan.
דיוואן תימני

Call number

CAJS Rar Ms 732
(420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19106-3703, University of Pennsylvania, Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9978087221703681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1453476212
• https://digitalcollections.library.upenn.edu/items/fb9b1ec7-6f68-4692-9f96-3fe63eafe74d

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

In Hebrew, and some poems in Judeo-Arabic; one poem in Aramaic (f. 9r-10v)

Origin

Date

1750?-1799?

Place

Yemen

Notes

• Title supplied by cataloger.
   

Extent

64 leaves : 17 x 6 cm

Support

Paper

Provenance

• Sold by Refa'eli Auctions (Jerusalem), 2022.
   

Subjects topical

• Jewish religious poetry, Hebrew
• Jewish religious poetry, Judeo-Arabic
• Piyutim
• Sabbath--Liturgy--Texts
• Pilgrim Festivals (Judaism)--Liturgy--Texts
• Manuscripts, Hebrew--Yemen (Republic)--18th century--Specimens
• Manuscripts, Judeo-Arabic--Yemen (Republic)--18th century--Specimens

Genres

• codices (bound manuscripts)
• Hymn texts

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — 18th century Yemenite Diwan, for the cycle of the year, beginning with the Sabbath
• fol. 53r — Poetry for the holiday cycle, completing with Simhat Torah and then followed by poetry for a groom and additional epithalamia
• fol. 63v — Poem of God praise