Song for Shavuot from an Ashkenazi Congregation in Italy
Manuscript ID:
Ms. Acc. 587
Place:
Modena(?), Italy
Date:
1830
Description:
ink on paper; broadside (48.8 x 37.2 cm.); Italian square and cursive Hebrew script
Subject:
Poetry
English Text:
This song for Shavuot was written for an Ashkenazi congregation in Italy and mentions the name
of its benefactor, Moses. The song, in trochaic tetrameter, offers a spiritual history of Israel. The
calligraphic hand is quite good, and the ornamental border, with geometrical and floral designs,
emulates printed broadside borders.
Hebrew / Paper / 31,4 x 23,5 cm. / [6] ff. / Unvocalised Italian cursive and vocalised square writing (autograph) / Each page written in engraved ornamental frame.
Manuscript Link:
https://huc.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1009656676