❧ Description
Liturgical collection according to the rite of Algiers, organized in four sections (selihot, piyyutim and mimouna for the Yamim Noraim and the festal cycle), with appendices for Purim, the piyyutim of Tisha b'Av and wedding songs. The manuscript derives from the structure of the great Maḥzor of Tlemcen-Algiers (Neubauer 1081 = MS. Reggio 63). The section of the qinot of Tisha b'Av contains a substantial series of piyyutim by Yehuda Halevi (d. 1141), confirming the continuity of the transmission of medieval Sephardic poetry in the post-1391 communities of North Africa.
Provenance: 1 Composite collection: section I copied by a different hand 2 Owner's inscription at fol. 102 (proposed Encaoua attribution, unconfirmed) 3 Binding bearing a fragment of a responsum dated 1786 4 Bodleian Library, former oriental holdings
Codicological notice — origin Algiers, Regency of Algiers, Algeria; script: Sephardic; folios: 137 folios; dimensions: tall quarto; early catalogues: Neubauer Catalogue 1886 · 1091; editorial status: Unpublished.
— Source: Mémoires des Manuscrits Juifs du Moyen-Âge Maghrébin (MMJMM / Collectif GMPL), https://mmjmm.org/corpus/catalogue/bodleian-bodl-or-602; manuscript held at the Bodleian Library (Oxford).
