Manuscript, year-round siddur with Kavanot HaAri. [Morocco, ca. early 18th century].

Complete manuscript in neat Western script, with fine typography. The text of the prayers is written in large letters, while the commentary and Kavanot are written in smaller script.

Siddur with Kavanot, based on the recension of R. Meir Poppers. The text incorporates glosses of kabbalists: R. Yosef Luria, which appear in several copyings of Kavanot siddurim from North Africa, on pp. 98b, 148a and more (R. Yosef Luria, son of R. Shlomo son of the Arizal, who in 1655 signed a halachic responsum in Morocco; see R. Moshe Hillel, Mekabtziel, XXXIX, pp. 708-709, note 30); R. Avraham Azulai, on pp. 73b, 98a, 107b, and more; R. Shalem Siboni (p. 24b, citing a gloss in the book he was copying from; a parallel manuscript in Western script from 1725, with these additions, is Ben Tzvi Institute, Jerusalem, Ms. 2217).

Includes prayers and Kavanot for weekdays and Shabbat, eating, blessings after meals, Rosh Chodesh, weeks preceding Tishah B'Av, High Holidays, Hoshana Rabba, festivals, Passover Haggadah, Chanukah, Purim and more. Several diagrams and tables. On leaves 83-84, menorah illustrations.

At the beginning of the manuscript appears the introduction of kabbalist R. Chaim HaKohen of Aleppo to his siddur.

Many kabbalistic marginal glosses, with novellae and Kavanot, most by the same writer (who was demonstrably an expert kabbalistic scholar) and several glosses by other writers. We were unable to identify the kabbalists who authored these glosses. Some of the margins containing the glosses were folded to preserve the glosses; some glosses were trimmed.

This manuscript reached Ancona, and was formerly Ms. 24 of the community's library. The first leaves contain signatures and inscriptions of the Morpurgo family of Ancona – signatures (calligraphic) by "Yosef Chaim Moshe Morpurgo" and an inscription: "This book belongs to Yosef son of R. Yehudah Avraham Yisrael Morpurgo". Ownership inscription on last leaf: "This book belongs to the perfect scholar… R. David Avraham Chai" – apparently R. David Avraham Chai Vivanti (1806-1876), Rabbi of Ancona.

This Yehudah Avraham Morpurgo is listed as a pre-subscriber to Chaim VaChesed (by R. Chaim Yitzchak Musafia, Livorno 1844), as a resident of Ancona. R. David Avraham Chai Vivanti apparently married his daughter Simcha Malka (for a poem leaf authored for this wedding, see Kedem Catalogue 57, Lot 209).

On first leaf, copying of the piyyut Shaar HaRachamim LeAm Becha Boteach (by R. Yehudah HaLevi), in Italian script.