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(LITURGY). YOSEPH YEDIDIAH CARMI. Kanaph Renanim [mystical Piyutim for recitation throughout the year]. FIRST EDITION. f. 12, 107, (9). Variously stained, trace wormed, repair to final leaf with loss of couple of letters. Modern boards. Sm. 4to. Vinograd, Venice 1172. Venice, Caleoni for Bragadin, 1626. Composed for recitation by the Shomrim LaBoker Society of the Usiglio Family private synagogue in Modena where the author (b. 1590) served as Hazzan.   The Aschkenazic societies of Shomerim LaBoker ('Watchers of the Dawn') would chant these Kabbalistic-infused hymns in the pre-dawn of Monday and Thursday mornings.   See M.J. Heller, The Seventeenth Century Hebrew Book, pp. 448-9.