University of Pennsylvania, CAJS Rar Ms 529

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DS ID:

DS25804

Shelfmark:

CAJS Rar Ms 529

Title:

Seder ha-tefilot she-ʼomerot ha-nashim ḳodem le-mitsṿot ha-muṭalot ʻalehen; na. ḥa. h. le-hitpalel lifne ha-maḳom ʻal benehen asher yaldu ... / סדר התפלות שאומרות הנשים קודם למצות המוטלות עליהן

Seder prayers

Scribe:

Urbino, Yeḥiʼel Menaḥem ben Avraham / אורבינו, יחיאל מנחם בן אברהם

Place:

Gazzuolo

Gazzuolo TGN

Date:

1774 or 1775.

eighteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Hebrew, with instructions in Italian

Hebrew WIKIDATA

Italian WIKIDATA

Material:

paper

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 28 leaves : paper ; 109 x 80 mm

Former Owner(s):

Norza, Leon

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title from title page (f. 1r)
Layout: Written in 12-13 lines.
Script: Written in a vocalized northern Italian square script in the hand of Yeḥiʼel Menaḥem ben Avraham Urbino, a scribe who was known to have written liturgical and synagogue items in northern Italy in the second half of eighteenth century.
Decoration: Curtains and tassels on the title page in a design surrounding the opening text (f. 1r).
Binding: Hard paper binding with brown leather spine; much of the spine is peeling, and corners of the boards bumped and peeling.
Formerly owned by Leon Norza (signature on final leaf).
Sold at auction at Kestenbaum & Co. (New York), 12 November 2002, lot 476.
Offered by 19th Century Rare Book and Photograph Shop (Brooklyn, New York), 2018.
Gift of Stephan Loewentheil, 2020.

Keyword:

Sources

Manuscripts, Hebrew

Eighteenth century

Texts

prayer books

codices (bound manuscripts)

Tehinnot

Pregnancy--Religious aspects--Judaism

History

Jews

Italy--Gazzuolo

Fasts and feasts--Judaism--Liturgy

Mikveh

Hallah

Institutional Record:

https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9977809546003681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3cc0v08d/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania