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Title

Casablanca piyut book for Passover :
ספר פיוטים לפסח מקזבלאנקא

Other related names

• Asckinazi, Gérard, former owner
• Goldman, Yosef, former owner
• Ben Shalom, Joshua, former owner

Call number

CAJS Rar Ms 770
(420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19106-3703, University of Pennsylvania, Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9979326719003681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1501130982
• https://digitalcollections.library.upenn.edu/items/9538336b-d423-40e2-80e0-0ecee1b00495

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

In Ladino, Judeo-Arabic, and Hebrew; Haftarah written in Hebrew and with Aramaic Targum (f. 6r-8r, and f. 12r-16r, that text translated to Ladino as well); words in French ("Piut", f. 18v, autograph, and place on f. 34v-35r)

Origin

Date

1850?-1899?

Place

Casablanca

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title devised by cataloger.
   

Extent

37 leaves : 16 x 11 cm

Support

Paper

Provenance

• Autograph of Joshua Ben Shalom on final free-end, in ink.
   
• Formerly owned by Gérard Asckinazi, 1557 East 9th Street, 11230 N.Y. Brooklyn (paper sheet left inside, on stationery of Communaute Israelite, Casablanca, Rue A. Lecouvreur).
   
• Sold by Mizrahi Bookstore (Brooklyn, N.Y.), 2023; formerly in the Yosef Goldman Collection (Israel Mizrahi).
   

Subjects topical

• Passover--Liturgy--Texts
• Piyutim
• Manuscripts, Spanish--Morocco--Casablanca--19th century--Specimens
• Manuscripts, Judeo-Arabic--Morocco--Casablanca--19th century--Specimens
• Manuscripts, Hebrew--Morocco--Casablanca--19th century--Specimens

Genres

• Hymns
• Manuscripts
• codices (bound manuscripts)

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 6r — Texts of the Haftarah for Seventh and Eight days of Passover and piyutim
• fol. 18r — Piyutim include שמע בני מוסר אביך חג המצות תעשה לך, by Jacob ibn Ẓur
• fol. 18v — אשאל אל כביר יורת מתי
• fol. 21r — מר לי מר לי מר לגדודיך מר לי מר