Seder haḳafot shel Śimḥat Torah / she-sider … Ḥayim Yosef Daṿid Azulai zatsal. סדר הקפות של שמחת תורה / שסידר ... חיים יוסף דוד אזולאי זצ"ל. [Circuits for the Rejoicing of the Law as instituted by Hayyim Joseph David Azulai].
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Seder haḳafot shel Śimḥat Torah / she-sider … Ḥayim Yosef Daṿid Azulai zatsal. סדר הקפות של שמחת תורה / שסידר ... חיים יוסף דוד אזולאי זצ"ל. [Circuits for the Rejoicing of the Law as instituted by Hayyim Joseph David Azulai].
Classmark: MS ROTH/24
Creator(s): Azulai, Hayyim Joseph David (1724-1806)(author)
Date(s): [19th century]
Language: Hebrew
Size and medium: 17 leaves : paper
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/115448
Description
Hebrew title supplied from title page with minor changes by cataloguer (see title page text in note below). English title derived from Roth, "Catalogue", in Alexander Marx: Jubilee Volume, vol. 1 (New York, 1950), no. 24.
Place of production: Livorno (according to text on title page).
Date of creation: MS Roth 24 was most probably copied after the death of the Ḥida in 1806 as זצ׳׳ל is attached to his name.
Text on title page: סדר הקפות של שמחה[!] תורה שסידר הרב מופת הדור בחיבורו צפורן שמיר מהרב חיים יוסף דוד אזולאי זצ׳׳ל זי׳׳ע ועל כל ישראל: נכתב פה ליוורנו יע׳׳א.
Summary (all references refer to the modern pencil foliation):
Contains the haḳafot for Simhat Torah which the Ḥida instituted in צפורן שמיר (first printed in 1786 as part of חורש מצ׳׳ל and then many times together with מורה באצבע , sometimes under the title עבודת הקודש, or alone). The circuits refer to the Ten Sefirot. At their end follows the prayer רבונו של עולם הנה אנחנו באים ביראה ואהבה (folios 13v–15v) by Eliʿezer ben Yitsḥaḳ Papo (1784/85–1827) (Davidson, Otsar ha-Shirah, vol. 3, 376, no. 500), and a personal prayer for the salvation from misfortune, sorrow or illness, יהי רצון מלפניך … שתפטר והציל אותי מזה הצרה (folio 16).
State of text: Ink corrosion and seepage, some staining; underwent conservation work.
Bibliographical note:
Roth, "Catalogue", in Alexander Marx: Jubilee Volume, vol. 1 (New York, 1950), no. 24.
National Library of Israel (NLI), Online Catalogue, system-no. 990001856070205171. The NLI’s description is based on the microfilm of MS Roth 24 made on behalf of the Institute of Microfilmed Hebrew Manuscripts of the NLI during the 1960s. The microfilm can now be downloaded in a digitised form from the NLI-webpage.
Davis, Handlist 164 (Leeds, 2005), no. 24.
Decoration
The item's title page and its whole layout imitate the appearance of a printed Hebraic book; the title page has a decorative border (penwork) evoking the shape of an arched gate, inscribed with זה השער לי׳׳י (Psalms 118:20); the letter Ḥet is written in Stam script style; important words and letters are stressed with para-textual elements; completion formulas; poetic spacing.
Physical characteristics
Foliation: i (ii is paste-down) + title page + 16 (foliated by the scribe as א-טו) + ii (ii is paste-down); modern pencil foliation upper left recto starts on title page; folio 1v is blank, folios 2v and 17 are ruled but blank.
Collation: 1⁴ 2² 3⁶(-6) 5⁴ 6².
Catchwords: horizontal, every page except folios 1, 2r, 4r, 5v, 7r, 8v, 10r, 11v, 13r, 15v.
Ruling: frame-ruled; 20 horizontal ruled lines in hard point, vertical bounding lines in pencil.
Number of lines: 2–20.
Script: Italian square Hebrew script; Italian-Sephardic cursive script.
Ms. codex: width 102mm height 154mm
Binding
Early(?) 19th-century full leather binding; gilt double fillet roll border in gold on cover of both boards, with gold-tooled fleurons in corners and center.
Vocalisation and cantillation
All liturgical parts are vocalised.
Former owners and annotations
Roth’s description of MS Roth 24, cut out from a copy of his printed catalogue, is attached to the initial free endpaper verso.
Access and usage
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