❧ Description
Collection of 231 piyyutim compiled at Tetouan and dated 1745. Joseph Luzzatto lists it among the twelve "most precious" numbers of his 1868 sale catalogue. Exceptional onomastic and linguistic richness: seventy identified authors (including Joseph b. Moses Crascas, Avraham b. Seal, Salomon Amram) and an attested Maghrebi polyglossia — the majority of pieces in Hebrew, five bilingual Hebrew-Arabic pieces, two in Aramaic and one in Judeo-Spanish, testifying to the persistence of Ladino in the Tetouan community. Described as UNPUBLISHED by SDL in 1868.
Provenance: 1 Jewish community of Tetouan, compilation completed in 1745 2 Acquisition by Samuel David Luzzatto, Padua, before 1865 3 Joseph Luzzatto Catalogue, 1868, no. 52 4 Sale by Isaia Luzzatto to the Bodleian Library, 1869-1870
Codicological note — origin Tetouan, northern Morocco; copyist: Yosef (compiler, incomplete identity); script: Maghrebi; leaves: 256 folios; dimensions: in-4°; early catalogues: Joseph Luzzatto Catalogue 1868 · no. 52; Neubauer 1886 · 1188; editorial status: Unpublished.
— Source: Mémoires des Manuscrits Juifs du Moyen-Âge Maghrébin (MMJMM / Collectif GMPL), https://mmjmm.org/corpus/catalogue/bodleian-piyutim-tetouan-luzzatto-52; manuscript held at the Bodleian Library (Oxford).
