Manuscript, piyyutim and songs for Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, and more. [Morocco, 1916].
Western script. The manuscript is decorated throughout with fine ornaments, in typical Moroccan style, colored in orange and green hues. Including 14 pages decorated with carpets and architectonic borders comprising horseshoe arches.
Includes piyyutim for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, complementing the North–African machzor for the High Holidays (with references to the machzor). Scribe's colophon on p. [21a], with his calligraphic signature, and the date of completion: Monday 5th Tishrei 1916.
Several additional leaves bound after the colophon, with various piyyutim.
[31] leaves. 15 cm. Good–fair condition. Stains, including dampstains. Worming, slightly affecting text. Tears and minor open tears, slightly affecting text, repaired in part with tape. Fine, new leather binding (with ornaments copied from manuscript).
Provenance: The Gross Family Collection, Tel Aviv, MO.011.022.
