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

Title

Moroccan Bakashot and piyut book.
[ספר בקשות ופיוטים, מרוקו]

Other related names

• Arolyo, Samuel, author
  ארוליו, שמואל.
• Pariente, Daniʼel, active 18th century, scribe
  פריינטי, דניאל.

Call number

CAJS Rar Ms 787
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9979448517403681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1535220679
• https://digitalcollections.library.upenn.edu/items/70d4a619-f086-49a1-aa55-a12b498c388c

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Hebrew; some captions in Judeo-Arabic, and one colophon in Judeo-Spanish (f. 151v)

Origin

Date

between 1750? and 1799?

Place

Morocco

Summary

Book of Bakashot and piyutim, composed for the Moroccan use, with compositions from contemporary Moroccan authors (chiefly Samuel Arolyo, mentioned on f. 110v, and 141r; Shemuʼel bar Avner (f. 236v)), with portions at the end of the manuscript for the holidays and Havdalah.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   
• A handwritten list of the poems and authors is available in the curator's file.
   

Extent

254 leaves : 143 x 133 (115 x 74) mm bound to 150 x 88 mm

Support

Paper

Binding

19th century wood-covered hammered brown leather, with a frame in the center of both boards.

Layout

Written in columns, with 12-16 lines; written mostly in indented paragraphs.

Script

Written in a Moroccan cursive script, and captions written in a Sephardic square script, mostly in the hand of Daniʼel Pariente; table of contents portion (f. 143r-151v) written in a Moroccan semicursive script, in the hand of Yaʼudah Seʻadon.

Provenance

• Sold by Taj Art (Jerusalem), Auction 14 (9 July 2024) lot 174.
   

Subjects topical

• Piyutim--Liturgical use--Morocco
• Fasts and feasts--Judaism
• Manuscripts, Hebrew--Morocco--18th century--Specimens

Genres

• tuǧras
• Jewish chants
• Hymnals
• Hymn texts
• codices (bound manuscripts)
• Manuscripts

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