Zemiroth Yisrael [liturgical poetry and hymns]. According to Sephardic custom

(ITALIAN JUDAICA)

Padua

1821

Manuscript in Italian square Hebrew script. Title within decorative architectural arch with marbled effect painted in brown and gray inks. Text in brown ink on paper

Contains piyuttim recited on the Festivals at the Sephardic Synagogue at Padua. With approbations by Menachem Azaria Cartilanovo and Jacob Luzzato. With additional liturgical poems commemorating the miracle of “saving our houses from the fire that burnt the house of Judah Isaac Schuster Katz.” As well as, particular prayers for pregenant women, for beneficial rains, against war and the out-break of small-pox, and a prayer for the sick instituted by Mordechai Samuel Girondi in 1819