University of Pennsylvania, CAJS Rar Ms 498

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS25803

Shelfmark:

CAJS Rar Ms 498

Title:

Seliḥot for the Four Fasts; rite of Carpentras / סליחות לארבעה צומות

Seliḥot

Scribe:

Milhaud, ʻImanuʼel ben Gad de / דמילייאב, עמנואל בן גד

Place:

Carpentras?

Carpentras TGN

Date:

1663

seventeenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Hebrew

Hebrew WIKIDATA

Material:

paper

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 69 leaves : paper ; 195 x 140 (170 x 100) mm bound to 190 x 135 mm

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger, with the term for the four fasts (ʼarbaʻa tsomot) taken from the colophon (f. 69v).
Foliation: Paper, 69; modern foliation in pencil, 1-69, lower left recto.
Layout: 16 unruled lines; for kinot forms, some are written in double columns, and others are written in paragraphs with centered headings.
Script: Written in a vocalized Provençal semi-cursive script in the hand of ʻImanuʼel ben Gad de Milhaud, a scribe who created many manuscripts for prayers in the customs of French communities in the late 17th and early 18th centuries.
Binding: Later binding, cheap leather, approximately 1850. The binding doesn't fit the manuscript and it has insect damage.
Origin: Written possibly in Carpentras, certainly in the Comtat Venaissin, by ʻImanuʼel ben Gad de Milhaud on 2 Sivan 5423 (Thursday, 7 June 1663).
GIFT FROM THE MOLDOVAN FAMILY COLLECTION By Joseph T. Moldovan C'76 and Susan A. Moldovan C'76. Donated in Honor and Memory of Jean and Dr. Alfred Moldovan.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, European

Texts

prayer books

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, Hebrew

Seventeenth century

Tenth of Tevet

Liturgics

Fasts and feasts--Judaism--Liturgy

Ninth of Av--Liturgy

Institutional Record:

https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9977524315703681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3t43j85k/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania