[Piyuṭim leha-shanah]; [פיוטים להשנה]

Name:

Levi, Yosef, 18th century

Date:

1753

Description:

This is a manuscript of liturgical portions and a piyut written in a large script for use during special occasions, likely in the synagogue. It is incomplete, and only the final quire remains; it originally may have been a large quarto-format manuscript. It opens in the middle of the prayer for the local authorities, in this case a kingdom, recited immediately before Musaf, and it continues into the liturgy for Yom Kippur prayers all meant to be recited before the Torah is returned to the ark. This is followed by the Thirteen Attributes of Mercy, with specific instruction to recite the Attributes with fervor (f. 10v). The manuscript continues with a piyut for the night of Simchat Torah (f. 12r), with some elements from other piyutim (such as "Hitḳabtsu malakhim," f. 13v) and some seen less often (such as "Kamah maʻalot ṭovot," f. 19v).

Language:

Hebrew

Provenance:

Formerly owned by David Levi (inscription, approximately 1800, f. 1r).; Presented to The Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joseph and Susan Moldovan (C'76).; Levi, David, active 19th century, former owner.

Subject:

Jews; History; Piyutim; Prayers; Jews -- Italy -- Casale Monferrato -- History -- Sources

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Sources; Codices (bound manuscripts); Prayer books; Manuscripts, Hebrew; Manuscripts, European; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

22 leaves : paper; 205 x 155 (162 x 113) mm

Geographic Subject:

Italy -- Casale Monferrato

Rights:

https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Title supplied by cataloger.; Table of contents: 880-04 1. f. 1r-11r: [Yehi ratson lifne haḥzarat sefer Torah le-Shabat ṿe-Yom ha-Kipurim] -- 2. f. 12r-21v: [Piyuṭ] lel Ś[imḥat] T[orah].; Collation: Paper, 22; 1²²; modern foliation in pencil, lower left recto, 1-22.; Layout: Written in 8 unruled lines; quarto format.; Script: Written in a heavy Italian square script; red ink vocalization in most of the text.; Decoration: Swirls and loops at the end of many lines for the second section (f. 12r-21v); red and black swirls and flowers after the colophon (f. 21v).; Origin: Written in northern Italy (based on the script and the minhag), likely in Casale Monferrato (home of the rabbinic Levi family), by Yosef Levi, and finished on the fifth day of Parashat Haʼazinu 5514 (6 Tishre, or Thursday 4 October 1753, f. 21v.); Disbound. Written with an extremely acidic ink, and the paper has broken in many places as a result of oxidation.; Hebrew.

Physical Location:

Library at the Katz Center, Rare Book Manuscripts, CAJS Rar Ms 496