[Seder mishmeret ha-ḥodesh ṿe-tiḳun ḥatsot ke-minhag ḳ.ḳ. Ḳasale. Pizmonim. Seder birkat ha-shemesh]. [סדר משמרת החודש ותיקון חצות כמנהג ק׳׳ק קסאלי.פזמונים. סדר ברכת השמש]. [Mystical midnight prayers as recited at Casale Monferrato, preceded by hymns of Moses Zacuto et cetera].
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Title: [Seder mishmeret ha-ḥodesh ṿe-tiḳun ḥatsot ke-minhag ḳ.ḳ. Ḳasale. Pizmonim. Seder birkat ha-shemesh]. [סדר משמרת החודש ותיקון חצות כמנהג ק׳׳ק קסאלי.פזמונים. סדר ברכת השמש]. [Mystical midnight prayers as recited at Casale Monferrato, preceded by hymns of Moses Zacuto et cetera].
Classmark: MS ROTH/38
Creator(s): Zacuto, Moses ben Mordecai (1620-1697)(poet)
Date(s): [18th–19th century]
Language: Hebrew
Size and medium: 77 leaves : paper, illustrations
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/115462
Description
Hebrew title supplied by cataloguer (partly derived from heading on folio 1r). English title derived from Roth, "Catalogue", in Alexander Marx: Jubilee Volume, vol. 1 (New York, 1950), no. 38.
Variant titles:
Birkat ha-ḥamah. ברכת החמה.
Tiḳun ḥazot. תקון חצות.
Date of production:
Roth, "Catalogue", no. 38, dates the item to the 17th century, and reads the date in the text on folio 1r (likely added later in secondary hand) as referring to the year 1713. However, the date has to be read as 7 Nisan 573, that is, 7 April 1813 which is the exact date of the beginning of the 28-year solar cycle (maḥzor gadol), as it is defined by Jewish tradition, in the 19th century. The NLI catalogue record (see below Bibliographical note) reads the date also as תקע״ג, and dates MS Roth 38 to the 19th century.
Heading on folio 1r: סדר ברכת השמש הנעשית א׳ לכ׳׳ח שנים שהוא בריש כל מחזור גדול ... ונעשה בשנת התקע"ג ז׳ לחדש ניסן.
Contents:
1. folio 1r: סדר ברכת השמש (whole text on folio 1r is likely added later by a secondary Italian Hebrew hand).
2. folios 1v–22v: blank.
3. folios 23–28: [פזמונים ובקשות]; short remarks regarding acrostics of authors, et cetera, in the hymns, as well as the use and meaning of the compositions are added in cartouche-like frames next to text.
4. folios 29r–70r: סדר משמרת החדש שנוהגים בני חבורת קהל קדוש קסאלי יצ׳׳ו לאומרה בחצות לילה אחר התיקון חצות; folio 35r: confessional prayer (ווידוי) iis added in the margins: אכלתי דברים האסורים (Davidson, Otsar, vol. 1, 153, no. 3269).
5. folio 70v: blank.
6. folios 71r–72r: פזמון ליום ששי אחר כל התיקון ..: יוצר יחידתי לו by Mosheh ben Mordekhai Zacuto (משה בן מרדכי זכות).
7. folios 72v–76r: בערב ר[אש] ח[ודש]; instructions and prayers, written without any poetic spacing, or vocalisation, beginning with נפשי נפשי אחותי.
State of text: Ink corrosion and seepage, staining, and wear.
Bibliographical note:
Roth, "Catalogue", in Alexander Marx: Jubilee Volume, vol. 1 (New York, 1950), no. 38.
National Library of Israel (NLI), Online Catalogue, system-no. 990001856200205171. The NLI’s description is based on the microfilm of MS Roth 38 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. 38.
Decoration
Instructional remarks referring to the prayers are embedded into cartouche-like frames (penwork); some refrains, remarks and headings are set in flourishingly drawn brackets (penwork); carefully executed layout and poetic spacing.
Physical characteristics
Foliation: ii (decorated paper; i is paste-down; ii is pasted to following fly-leaf) + i + 77 + (foliated as 1–10 [11] 11[=12]–76[=77]) + i +ii (decorated paper; i is pasted to previous fly-leaf; ii is paste-down); modern pencil foliation upper left recto; folios 1v–22v, 70v, and 76v are blanks.
Catchwords: horizontal, irregular.
Number of lines: 13–19 in folios 23r–76r; folio 1r: 32 lines.
Script: Italian Hebrew script.
Ms. codex: width 112mm height 176mm
Binding
(Early 19th-century?) full red goatskin over boards; covers of upper and lower board are decorated with a gold-tooled border with an anthemion and leaves roll design on a single outer fillet roll; in centre of both covers is a an identical gilt oval laurel frame which contains a crown atop an ornamented armorial shield held by two lions.
Spine is divided by 5 raised bands into seven compartments, each of which is decorated with gold-tooled designs; red-sprinkled text block edges; decorative end-papers with a bronze-turquoise floral design.
Vocalisation and cantillation
Most liturgical parts are vocalised, except those on folios 72v–76r, and folio 1r.
Scribal information
Written in a beautiful professional hand.
Former owners and annotations
Marginal and interlinear notes by at least two additional Italian Hebrew hands.
Text on folio 1r is likely added by a later hand.
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