Ms. codex.

Title page title (first work, folio 2v)

The date in the copyist's colophon (folio 68v) has been rendered illegible and the name Joseph ben Isaac ibn Avitor has been added at the end.

Decoration: Many sections are preceded by illuminated facing pages. Other pages have colored decoration as well. The decoration includes elaborate geometric designs, rectangles and other angular compartments or gateways that contain texts or imaginative implements such as ewers; and elaborately shaped figures representing human beings that are clearly Middle Eastern and/or Islamic. The palette, now faded, included green, red, black and brown (yellow?)

Tikun Pesah books were popular in the 18th and 19th century, and beyond, amongst rural Jews, who persisted in maintaining their traditions in opposition to the Sephardic hegemony predominating in the cities. Moshe Bar-Asher claims that they may be localized to the region of Fez, especially in and around Tafilalat ("Tikun Pesah mi-Tafilalat shebe-Maroko," Shanah be-shanah 41 [2000/2001] 147-159). Their stylized writing and decorative program are also of a more popular nature.

Accompanying materials: A study of the manuscript that had been prepared for its former owner may be found in a separate envelope.

Shelfmark: New York, The Library of The Jewish Theological Seminary, MS 10886.

Cataloging and digitization funded by an anonymous challenge grant, 2014-2015.

Hebrew and Aramaic, with some Judeo-Arabic ; Moroccan Sefardic square script, with instructions in semi-cursive.