POEMS, MANUSCRIPT ON PAPER [18th century] Scribe: Graziadio di Abram Bon(?)

69 leaves, 5 ½ x 4 inches; 140 x 102 mm, written in various Italian and Sefardi scripts in brown ink, decorative pen work (fols. 4v, 43r, 54v), catchwords; repairs to tears on fols. 26, 45, and 49, long internal knife cut on fol. 54 touching several lines of text, margins of fol. 56 cropped, scattered spotting and staining, occasional browning, a few inner margins strengthened. Marbled boards, calf spine.

Moise Baruch Caravaglio of Guardi (?) (owner’s inscription, in Italian, fol. 26v) — Solomon Halberstam (shelf no. 267 and note listing some of the poems on the front flyleaf)

Hirschfeld (ms. no. 235)

Content

Fols. 9v, 10v, 17r, 19r, 20v, 22r, 24r, 25v, 26v, 28r: Poems by Moses Zacuto.

Fol. 18: Poem in Ladino.

Fol. 45: Ashkenazi Shabbath songs.

Fol. 57r: End of pizmonim, beginning with ale”f.

Fol. 57v: Pizmonim and bakashot beginning with the letter be”th.

Fol. 59r: The service for the day preceding the New Moon.

This volume is composed of various manuscripts and the vocalization of the poems is very unconventional.