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Title

Shulḥan ʻarukh Oraḥ ḥayim, with the commentary of Shetile zetim :
שלחן ערוך, אורח חיים, עם פרוש שתילי זתים

Authors

• Karo, Joseph ben Ephraim, 1488-1575
  קארו, יוסף
• Karo, Joseph ben Ephraim, 1488-1575
  קארו, יוסף בן אפרים
• Isserles, Moses ben Israel, approximately 1525-1572
  איסרליס, משה
• Rivkes, Moses ben Naphtali Hirsch, -1671 or 1672
  רבקש, משה בן נפתלי הירש
• Mizraḥi, David ben Shalom, 1696-1771
  מזרחי, דוד בן שלום

Other related names

• Maḥpud, Mordekhai, former owner
  מחפוד, מרדכי.
• Maḥpud, Yaʻish, former owner
  מחפוד, יעיש.

Call number

CAJS Rar Ms 775
(420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19106-3703, University of Pennsylvania, Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9979556134303681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1525851893
• https://digitalcollections.library.upenn.edu/items/ca4ea85e-7210-4915-bfe7-c61fdb413908

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Text in Hebrew

Origin

Date

1771-1799?

Place

Tsanʻa y.ʻa.E. Ṣanʻāʼ, Yemen

Summary

Early manuscript of David ben Shalom Mizraḥi's Shetile zetim, written following his death in 1771 (title page, f. 1r); this manuscript was the second volume of the Shulḥan ʻarukh Oraḥ ḥayim, covering the laws of Passover, Yom ṭov, Ḥol ha-moʻed, 9th of Av, Taʻanit, Rosh ha-Shanah, Yom Kippur, Sukkot, Ḥanukah, and Purim.

Notes

• The text of Shulḥan ʻarukh Oraḥ ḥayim, with Isserles, Mapah, written in the inner column; Shetile zetim written in the outer column (with letters used as in-text citation to Karo's text) ; Beʼer ha-golah written in the outer margins. Written in a Yemenite cursive script, in a scribal hand (text), with captions and titles written in a Yemenite square script.
   
• Columns and lines blind-ruled.
   
• Bound in a contemporary leather binding; boards pressed cardboard bound in leather, with blind-frame with central decorated cartouche and upper and lower additional decorations (festooned floral and vine patterns).
   

Extent

I, 94, i leaves : 33 x 21 cm

Support

Paper

Provenance

• Sold by Yalta Auction House (Brooklyn, N.Y.), December 2024.
   
• Sold by Yalta Auction House (Brooklyn, N.Y.), December 2024.
   

Subjects topical

• Jewish law--18th century--Texts
• Pilgrim Festivals (Judaism)
• Fasts and feasts--Judaism
• Manuscripts, Hebrew--Yemen (Republic)--Ṣanʻāʼ--18th century--Specimens

Genres

• Manuscripts
• codices (bound manuscripts)

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Title page