Sepher Hilula Raba [Order of study and prayer for the night of Lag B’Omer]

(LITURGY).

Tangier

1869

Hebrew manuscript in elegant Sephardic square and cursive scripts. Black ink on paper. Title decorated in green, red, blue and yellow inks within a border with floral motifs. Other color illustrations throughout text

Contains prayers and passages from the Zohar and Talmud to study in honor of R. Shimon Bar Yochai and his son, R. Elazar Yoram ben Uziah and R. Isaac Luria. Includes piyutim with acrostics by Abraham Azulai, Chaim Pinto Misod and others. Also includes blessings and special Kabbalistic prayers upon the blossoming of trees, Birkath Ilanoth, to be recited in the month on Nissan, and a sun blessing and prayer for the equinox, Birkath Ha’chamah, recited once every 28 years