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

Title

Bakashot book, use of Aleppo :
בקשות, מנהג חלאב

Other related names

• Goldman, Yosef, former owner (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no93034355)

Call number

CAJS Rar Ms 798
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9978151421803681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1553868862

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

In Hebrew

Origin

Date

between 1800 and 1850

Place

Aleppo?, Syria

Summary

Manuscript Bakashot, or extraliturgical hymns for the Sabbaths and holidays, set to (and organized by) maqām, with indications above Bakashot of style of tune or chant. Text written in an Oriental cursive script; captions and paragraph opening words written in an Oriental square script (captions written larger, and the letters of the caption on f. 10r decorated with flora).

Notes

• 1. f.1r-9r: Ratsd -- 2. f. 10r-12r: ʻArzabar -- 3. f.13r-16v: Mahor -- 4. f.17r-22r: Sazgar -- 5. f.28r-32v: ʻAjam -- 6. f. 33r-39v: Atsafhaz [and Bayat, with additional Mahor].
   

Extent

39 leaves : 14 x 10 cm

Support

Paper

Provenance

• Purchased from Mizrahi Bookstore (Brooklyn, N.Y.), 2024; formerly owned by collector Yosef Goldman (Israel Mizrahi).
   

Subjects topical

• Jewish hymns--Syria--Aleppo--19th century
• Jewish hymns--Texts
• Jewish religious poetry
• Manuscripts, Hebrew--Syria--Aleppo--19th century--Specimens

Genres

• Manuscripts, Hebrew--19th century
• codices (bound manuscripts)
• Hymns
• Piyutim
• Zemirot
• Hymnals
• Manuscripts

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Ratsd
• fol. 10r — ʻArzabar
• fol. 13r — Mahor
• fol. 17r — Sazgar
• fol. 28r — ʻAjam
• fol. 33r — Atsafhaz [and Bayat, with additional Mahor]