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Title

Tikun ʻErev Rosh ḥodesh and Tikun shovavim liturgy, use of Mantua.
[תקון ערב ראש חדש ותקון שובבים, מנהג מנטובה]

Authors

• Zacuto, Moses ben Mordecai, approximately 1620-1697
  זכות, משה בן מרדכי

Other related names

• Colon, Yehonatan, former owner
• Colon, Mordekhai, former owner
• Colon, Gedaliah, former owner
• Aboab, Samuel ben Abraham, -1694, associated name (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n87933018)
• Ḥevrat Ḥaverim maḳshivim (Mantua, Italy), associated name
• Scuola Grande de Mantova (Mantua, Italy), associated name

Call number

CAJS Rar Ms 800
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9979495897603681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1558597489

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Date

between 1673 and 1697

Place

Mantua, Italy

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   
• Decorations: Glyph (drawn as an endpiece; f. 11v); and a decorated text border (f. 22r).
   
• 1. f.1r-22r: Tikun ʻErev Rosh ḥodesh -- 2. f. 22v-32r: Tikun shovavim -- 3. f.32v-34v: Hatarat nedarim -- 4. f. 35r-36r: [Historical and biographical note about the liturgy and Moses Zacuto].
   

Extent

36 leaves : 170 x 120 (105 x 105) mm bound to 180 x 130 mm

Collation

Paper, 36; 1⁴ 2¹⁰ 3⁴ 4¹² 5⁶; modern foliation in pencil, 1-36, lower left recto.

Support

Paper

Layout

Written in 22 lines; certain Selihot written in opposing paragraphs (in a stanza format, such as f. 9r); and a tapered column (f. 23v).

Provenance

• Formerly owned by the Colon family of Fossano (inscription of Yehonatan Colon, followed by Mordekhai Colon, then Gedaliah Colon) on f. 36v).
   
• Purchased at auction (Kestenbaum & Company, Auction 107 lot 93).
   

Subjects topical

• Yom Kippur Katan--Liturgical use--Italy--Mantua--17th century
• Shovavim tat
• Cabala--Liturgy--Texts
• Jews--Italy--Mantua--17th century--History--Sources
• Manuscripts, Hebrew--Italy--Mantua--17th century--Specimens

Genres

• Manuscripts, Hebrew--17th century
• Manuscripts, European
• codices (bound manuscripts)
• Liturgical books
• Service books
• Rituals
• Prayers
• Manuscripts

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Tikun ʻErev Rosh ḥodesh
• fol. 22v — Tikun shovavim
• fol. 32v — Hatarat nedarim
• fol. 35r — [Historical and biographical note about the liturgy and Moses Zacuto]