[Maḥazor minhag Ḳaṿalyon le-Yom ha-Kipurim ʿim ashmorot le-ʿerev Kipur]. [מחזור מנהג קאווליון ליום הכיפורים עם אשמורות לערב כפור ]. [Service for the Day of Atonement, rite of Cavaillon, preceded by penitential prayers for previous day].
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Title: [Maḥazor minhag Ḳaṿalyon le-Yom ha-Kipurim ʿim ashmorot le-ʿerev Kipur]. [מחזור מנהג קאווליון ליום הכיפורים עם אשמורות לערב כפור ]. [Service for the Day of Atonement, rite of Cavaillon, preceded by penitential prayers for previous day].
Classmark: MS ROTH/28
Creator(s): Ibn Ezra, Moses ben Jacob (c1055-1135)(poet); (poet); Ibn Gabirol (1022-1070)(poet)
Date(s): [17th–18th century]
Language: Hebrew
Size and medium: 191 leaves : paper, illustrations
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/115452
Description
Hebrew title supplied by cataloguer. English title derived from Roth, "Catalogue", in Alexander Marx: Jubilee Volume, vol. 1 (New York, 1950), no. 28.
Variant titles:
Maḥzor minhag Ḳarpenṭrats le-Yom Kipur. מחזור מנהג קרפנטרץ ליום כפור.
Ashmurah le-ʿerev ha-Tsom. אשמורה לערב הצום.
Ashmurot ʿerev Yom Kipur. אשמורות ערב יום כפור.
Relation to printed editions:
The rite in MS Roth 28 is close to (but not identical with) Seder shel Yom Kipur ke-minhag ḳehal ḳadosh Aṿignyon, edited by Avraham Monṭil (Amsṭerdam: Herts Leṿi Rofe ṿe-ḥatano Ḳośman, 526 [1765 or 1766]) (Roth Collection 492).
Contents:
1. folios 1–26: אשמורה לערב כפור.
2. folios 27–56: נוסח תפלת ערבית של יום הכפורים (folio 38: פסוקי דרחמי; folios 29–55v: סליחות; folio 56: לשבת).
3. folios 57r–69r: מפתח לשחרית (folio 65: נשמת אסירי עוונות שבויי אשמים by Moses ibn Ezra (Davidson, Otsar ha-Shirah, vol. 3, 226, no. 673); folio 67r–69r: אלהים אל נורא מאז! ואיום by Moses ibn Ezra (Davidson, Otsar ha-Shirah, vol. 1, 212, no. 4636).
4. folios 69r–114r: [תפלת שחרית: שמע וברכותיה] ˝ (folio 77: ידידים לבית אל חשו by Moses ibn Ezra (Davidson, Otsar ha-Shirah, vol. 2, 285, no. 585) as seliḥah for when Yom Kippur falls on Shabbat); folio 78v: נורא מכל ואיום by Moses ibn Ezra (Davidson, Otsar ha-Shirah, vol. 3, 208, no. 256); folio 79: ירצה לפניך מעמד השחר by Zerahiah ben Isaac ha-Levi Gerondi (Davidson, Otsar ha-Shirah, vol. 2, 439, no. 3912); folio 83: בני תמימים משכימים אל חצרות by Moses ibn Ezra (Davidson, Otsar ha-Shirah, vol. 2, 45, no. 1029); folios 99–100: קיקלר: ובכן למדני צור דתך by Shelomoh ibn Gabirol (Davidson, Otsar ha-Shirah, vol. 3, 501, no. 2001)).
5. folios 114r–118v: [קריאת תורה] (פרשה, מפטיר, הפטרה).
6. folios 118v–119r: נשלמה תפלה שחרית.
7. folios 119r–153r: תפילה מוסף (folios 123r–131: סדר עבודה: אמונה לבב הבינו by Moses ibn Ezra (Davidson, Otsar ha-Shirah, vol. 1, 256, 5607); folio 134: יערב לפניך כמו קרבו מוספים שועת by Yosef ben Yitsḥaḳ ben Shaṭnash (ibn Avitor) (Davidson, Otsar ha-Shirah, vol. 2, 409, no. 3274); folio 136: זמן הבלי ימי סכלי by Moses ibn Ezra (Davidson, Otsar ha-Shirah, vol. 2, 217, no. 205).
8. folios 153v–173r: תפלה מנחה.
9. folio 173v: blank.
10. folios 174r–190v: תפלה נעילת שערים (folio 181: סליחה לשבת: במוצאי שבת תהלות תצמיח (Davidson, Otsar ha-Shirah, vol. 2, 35, no. 780).
State of text: Relatively well preserved; item underwent conservation work; many leaves are repaired with tissue.
Bibliographical note:
Roth, "Catalogue", in Alexander Marx: Jubilee Volume, vol. 1 (New York, 1950), no. 28.
National Library of Israel (NLI), Online Catalogue, system-no. 990001856110205171. The NLI’s description is based on the microfilm of MS Roth 28 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. 28.
Decoration
Decoration 1: Clusters of ornamental shapes (penwork) (imitation of flowers in vases?) to the left and right of the last two lines on folio 27r.
Decoration 2: Decorative ornamental frame in form of an open inverted trapezoid around instruction on folio 55v with additional clusters of ornamental shapes (imitation of trees) drawn to the left and right of the frame (penwork).
Decoration 3: Clusters of ornamental shapes and ornamental division lines drawn in ink to the left and right of the last four lines on folio 153r.
Decoration 4: Small decorative frames around special instructions for when Yom Kippur falls on Shabbat (see, for example, folios 74v, 199v, 122r, 173r).
Decoration 5: Ornamental shapes used as divider between different parts of service (see, for example, folios 28r, 30r, 34v, 49r, 50v, 126v, 143v).
Decoration 6: Scribal errors corrected by ornamental frame around mistakes (see, for example, dittography in folio 73v), or by ‘blotting out'with ornamental zigzag line (see, for example, near homeoarchy in folio 75).
Decoration 7: Different script sizes for different parts of the text; initial words and headings are in bigger bolder script; instructions, running titles and catchwords are in smaller script.
Decoration 8: Decorative substitute for the Tetragrammaton (sometimes additionally ornamented, for example, folio 39r, 48v, 75v).
Decoration 9: Running titles (see, for example, folio 17) which are mostly trimmed off.
Decoration 10: Catchwords.
Decoration 11: Completion formulas.
Decoration 12: Poetic spacing.
Physical characteristics
Foliation: v (i is paste-down) + i (original fly-leaf) + 190 + v (v is paste-down); modern pencil foliation, upper left recto; folio 173v is blank.
Catchwords: horizontal, on the majority of versos, irregular.
Ruling: frame-ruled in plummet(?); 22 ruled lines; horizontal ruled lines often drawn from outer to inner edge.
Number of lines: generally 22.
Script: Provençal Hebrew script.
Ms. codex: width 180mm height 206mm
Binding
Rebound in full leather by conservation in the 1990s (original paper-label with סדר של יום הכיפורים, as well as Roth’s typical paper label with blue border bearing the MS number, are remounted on spine).
Vocalisation and cantillation
All liturgical parts are vocalised.
Scribal information
Written in one professional hand.
Former owners and annotations
Crude drawings and doodles in pencil and ink including the name דוד probably not by the scribe (front fly-leaf).
Two owner’s notes in French written by two different Latin cursive hands at the end of the ashmarot in folio 26v. The notes are nearly completely blotted out but "Cavaillon" is still readable in both notes.
Roth’s description of MS Roth 28, cut out from a copy of his printed catalogue, is attached to the front paste-down.
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