[Baḳashot le-Shabat ule-moʿadim. Rashuyot u-fiyuṭim le-ḥatanim]. [בקשות לשבת ולמועדים. רשויות ופיוטים לחתנים]. [Hymns for Sabbaths, festivals, weddings, et cetera, some otherwise unknown, by various North African poets, including Farji, Joseph ben Solomon Caspi, Masud, Mandali, Jacob Adhan, David ben Hasin, Joshua Zultan, Mansur, Saadiah Shuraki, et cetera].
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Type of record: Archive
Title: [Baḳashot le-Shabat ule-moʿadim. Rashuyot u-fiyuṭim le-ḥatanim]. [בקשות לשבת ולמועדים. רשויות ופיוטים לחתנים]. [Hymns for Sabbaths, festivals, weddings, et cetera, some otherwise unknown, by various North African poets, including Farji, Joseph ben Solomon Caspi, Masud, Mandali, Jacob Adhan, David ben Hasin, Joshua Zultan, Mansur, Saadiah Shuraki, et cetera].
Classmark: MS ROTH/30
Creator(s): Ibn Ezra, Abraham ben Meïr (1092-1167)(poet); (poet); (poet); (poet); Chouraqui, Saadia(poet)
Date(s): [18th century]
Language: Hebrew
Size and medium: 65 leaves : paper
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/115454
Description
Hebrew title supplied by cataloguer following the completion formula on folio 47r. English title derived from Roth, "Catalogue", in Alexander Marx: Jubilee Volume, vol. 1 (New York, 1950), no. 30.
Summary:
MS Roth 30 is incomplete. The only partly visible (original?) Hebrew foliation shows, that the first leaf, as well as folio [ז] (after folio 5), and some leaves at the end are missing.
The item contains petitionary prayers, reshuyot, and hymns by Spanish and North-African Jewish poets.
Contents:
1. folios 1–15: בקשות של שבת, for example: טובך יה לגמור [by Yisraʾel] (folio 1) (Davidson, Otsar, vol. 2, 253, no. 91); להודות מה טוב by Ya’aḳov ha-Leṿi (folios 1v–2r) (Davidson, Otsar, vol. 3, 23, no. 512); אעיר כנשר קני by Seʿadyah Shuraḳi (סעדיה שוראקי) (folios 3v–4r) (Davidson, Otsar, vol. 1, 319, no. 7019); אין סוף בקודש by Yeshuʿa Tsulṭan (ישועה צולטאן) (folios 4r–5r); על אהבתך אשתה [by Judah ha-Levi] (folio 5v) (Davidson, Otsar, vol. 3, 266, no. 424) (incomplete); אודה לאל לבב by Shemayahu (folio 6) (Davidson, Otsar, vol. 1, 72, 1570); אשיר במישרים את שם[!] ה׳ קול מהלל by Avraham [ibn Ezra] (folio 7) (Davidson, Otsar, vol. 1, 359, no. 7924); שיר ידידות אנובבה by Shemuʾel [ben Ḥayim Malelul] (folios 7v–8v) (Davidson, Otsar, vol. 3, 452, no. 981); שומר שבת ומכבדו by Mosheh (folio 9v) (Davidson, Otsar,
vol. 1, no. 319, no. 7008); שומר שבת מחללו by Frag'i [ben Nisim Shaṿat] (folios 10v–11r) (Davidson, Otsar, vol. 3, 435, no. 680); סלסלו בנים ביחד by Seʿadyah (folio 12) (Davidson, Otsar, vol. 3, 243, no. 161); מבורך שבת מפי by Mosheh bar Ya’aḳov [Adhan] (folios 12v–13v) (Davidson, Otsar, vol. 3, 75, no. 138; יום השבת אין by Mantsur (folios 13v–14r) (Davidson, Otsar, vol. 2, 336, no. 1688); שומר שבת מצוה by Mosheh Tsulṭan (Davidson, Otsar, vol. 3, 435; no. 683).
2. folios 21–41: בקשות של מועדות, for example: אני לביתך שיחרתי [by Avraham] (folio 21) (Davidson, Otsar, vol. 1, 305, no. 6720; יה צורי מהר by Yosef (folios 21v–22v) (Davidson, Otsar, vol. 2, 306, no. 1075; אלי בך בטחתי by Yosef bar Shalom ibn Kaspi (יוסף בר שלם אבן כספי) (folio 23r–24r); לדלתי ביתך הנני by Yehuda ha-Levi ha-ḳaṭan (folios 24v–25v) (Davidson, Otsar, vol. 3, 22, no. 491; מודה לצור ומשובחת by מנדיל [=יצחק אבן זמרא?] (folios 25v–27v); ארץ הקדושה יקרה by Avraham Selamah (סלאמה) (folios 28r–29r) (Davidson, Otsar, vol. 1, 348, no. 7681); סומך נופלים סומכני by Seʿadya (folios 34v–35r) Davidson, Otsar, vol. 3, 239, no. 85).
3. folios 42r–47r: רשויות] לחתנים], for example: אהלל אל אשר יצר (Davidson, Otsar, vol. 1, 67, no. 1444).
4. folios 47v–65v: פיוטים לחתנים, for example: ירחיב אלהי בגבול (folios 47v–48r) (Davidson, Otsar, vol. 2, 437, no. 3874); מי זאת עולה מן המדבר מקוטרת מור by Masaʿud [מסעוד] (folio 55); אל הר הטוב by Daṿid Ḥazan [ben Ḥasin] (folios 55v–56v) (Davidson, Otsar, vol. 1, 168, no. 3602); מי זאת עולה יפיפיה by Mordekhai [Yafe] Ḥazaḳ (folio 57r) (Davidson, Otsar, vol. 3, 117, no. 1046).
State of text: Incomplete (see above Summary). Tearing, pest damage and staining; further damage by unprofessional repairs with tape; item underwent conservation work in 1995; some leaves are repaired with tissue.
Bibliographical note:
Roth, "Catalogue", in Alexander Marx: Jubilee Volume, vol. 1 (New York, 1950), no. 30.
National Library of Israel (NLI), Online Catalogue, system-no. 990001856130205171. The NLI’s description is based on the microfilm of MS Roth 30 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. 30.
Decoration
Ornamental frame (penwork) around completion formula on folio 47r; use of elements from scroll-script, like tagin, in some places; maintenance of left margins; poetic spacing.
Physical characteristics
Foliation: ii (i is paste-down) + 65 + ii (ii is paste-down); modern pencil foliation, upper left recto (done after loss of leaves); folios 15v–18v, and likely 40v–41v were originally blank; folios 19–20 are blank; only partially visible Hebrew foliation (by the scribe?) in upper left corner foliates the first 15 leaves as ב-ו, [ח]-יז.
Catchwords: horizontal, on every page, except folios 15r–20v, 41v and 47r.
Ruling: outer bounding lines ruled in hard point; no additional vertical ruled lines visible.
Number of lines: 16-19.
Script: Mughrabi Hebrew script.
Ms. codex: width 106mm height 159mm
Binding
Full leather binding over paste-boards. In 1997, conservation moved typical Roth paper label with blue border and the MS number "30" from head to tail of spine, and added "MS Roth 30" in gilt lettering.
Scribal information
Main four parts are likely copied by one hand which left blank leaves at the end of the first and second part for additions.
Former owners and annotations
Added hymns by at least three different Mughrabi Hebrew hands at the end of the prayers for Shabbat (folios 15v–20v (originally blank)).
Pen-trials in Hebrew, and French in a Latin cursive hand on folio 18r.
Additional hymns for festival on folios 40r–41v (reshut by Avraham ibn Ezra on folio 41v) added by several secondary hands.
Cut-out seller’s description which includes price, attached to the front paste-down: "Bakashoth. Song and poems for Sabbath and Festivals, by Fargi, Hayyim, Josef b. Solomon Khaspi, Maasud, David, Mandali, Jacob Adhan, Seadya, Jeshua Zultan, David ben Hasin, Abraham Selamah, Moses Zultan, Manzur, Seadya Shuraki, and other unknown poets from the Maghreb, Manuscript on 65 leaves of paper, cursive North African writing, probably of the 18th Century. Leather (160mm. by 105mm.) £4 10s."
Another cut-out seller’s description is attached to back paste-down; it does not name any price but, apart from this, it is nearly identical to the seller’s description pasted to the front paste-down.
Roth’s ex-libris is attached to the front paste-down below the seller’s description.
Roth’s description of MS Roth 30, cut out from a copy of his printed catalogue, is attached to front fly-leaf recto.
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