[Ḳovets : tefilot, limudim u-vizmonim le-hizdamnuyot shonot ke-minhag Ḳorfu (bi-khetav yad uvi-defus)]. [קובץ : תפילות, לימודים ופזמוניים להזדמנויות שונות כמנהג קורפו (בכתב יד ובדפוס)]. [Miscellany : prayers, hymns and readings for commemoration of the dead, circumcision, the dedication of a house, et cetera, with some unpublished hymns, rite of Corfu (manuscript and print)].
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: [Ḳovets : tefilot, limudim u-vizmonim le-hizdamnuyot shonot ke-minhag Ḳorfu (bi-khetav yad uvi-defus)]. [קובץ : תפילות, לימודים ופזמוניים להזדמנויות שונות כמנהג קורפו (בכתב יד ובדפוס)]. [Miscellany : prayers, hymns and readings for commemoration of the dead, circumcision, the dedication of a house, et cetera, with some unpublished hymns, rite of Corfu (manuscript and print)].
Classmark: MS ROTH/65
Creator(s): Hannover, Nathan Nata (1683)(compiler)
Date(s): [18th–19th century]
Language: Hebrew
Size and medium: 43 leaves : paper, illustrations
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/115489
Description
Hebrew title supplied by cataloguer. English title derived from Roth, "Catalogue", in Alexander Marx: Jubilee Volume, vol. 1 (New York, 1950), no. 65.
Variant titles:
Seder ha-Limudim. סדר הלמודים.
Seder limud. סדר לימוד.
Shaʿare Tsiyon. שערי ציון.
Summary:
The item is a bound-with codex comprising one manuscript followed by fragments of 3 printed liturgical Hebrew items (see below).
The manuscript part contains lists (‘orders of study’) specifying Bible passages, as well as some full passages from Mishnah and Zohar to be read and/or studied during various special occasions, like circumcision or commemoration of the dead; it also contains prayers and some hymns to be recited before and after the study.
Among the handwritten texts are:
[תפילה קודם לימוד של זכירה] beginning, אתה בחרתנו מכל העמים אהבת אותנו ורצית בנו ונתת בנו נשמה טהורה (folio 1v–2r); [תפילה] אחר לימוד [של זכירה] beginning, יהי רצון לפניך י״י … שתאיר היום בחסדך הגדול על הנשמות הקדושות העומדות בשלשה שורות (folio 2); ליום של תחינה אומרים זה: אשר בידו נפש … ממית ומחיה (folio 3r–3v); סדר של מת מבית (folio 3v–4r); מסכת חגיגה (chapter 1) (folio 4v–5r); לימוד של זכירה (folio 5v–6v); [תפילה של] מילה beginning ברוכים אתם קהל אמוני׳ (folio 7r); תפילה קודם הלימוד בילל המילה (folios 7v–8v); סדר לימוד ביליל מילה (folios 9r–10v); למוד לשמ׳ אליהו הנביא (folios 11r–12v); [סדר הלימוד]
ישיבה של נדר (folios 12v–14r); ספר אוצר טוב לחינוך הבית (folios 14v–15v); תפלה לחינוך הבית (folios 16r–18r); [פתיחת אליהו :[תקוני זהר, תקון א (folios 18v–20v); ברכת המזון אומרים (folio 21v–22r); פרק ט׳ מסכת ברכות של חינוך הבית (folios 22v–22r); מרפא לנפש אחר הלימוד (folios 25v–26r); מסכת חגיגה (chapters 2-3) (folios 26r–28r).
Bound-with printed quires:
1: 2 folios of תקוני שבת (folios סד to סה).
2: 3 folios of סדר הבדלה (folios פא to פג).
3: 10 folios from, most probably, an edition of שערי ציון (Shaʿare Tsiyon) by Nosen Note ben Moysheh Hanover; תיקון חצות and תקון הנפש are extant (folios יד to כד).
State of text: Worn, stained and mutilated; folio 1 is loose.
Bibliographical note:
Roth, "Catalogue", in Alexander Marx: Jubilee Volume, vol. 1 (New York, 1950), no. 65.
National Library of Israel (NLI), Online Catalogue, system-no. 990001856730205171. The NLI’s description is based on the microfilm of MS Roth 65 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. 65.
Decoration
Decoration 1: Different script sizes for different parts of the text, like headings and initial words.
Decoration 2: Some ornaments crudely imitating tail-pieces or ornaments dividing the text.
Decoration 3: Ornamental dots above some words.
Decoration 4: Uniform relatively carefully executed layout of the limudim with some ornamentation.
Decoration 5: Poetic spacing.
Decoration 6: Substitute for Tetragrammaton.
Physical characteristics
Foliation: 28 (manuscript) + i + 15 (print; 3 items); 4 bound-with items, each with modern pencil foliation, upper left recto (except folio 28); printed items have printed Hebrew foliation; folio 1r was originally blank, folio 28v is blank.
Ruling: frame-ruled in pencil; generally 21 ruled lines.
Number of lines: 19-21 (manuscript).
Script: Italian Hebrew script.
Ms. bound with print: width 132mm height 190mm
Binding
Sewn into stiff paper wraper covered by decorated paper (floral pattern) which is mostly lost through damage. Held in drop-box covered with brown cloth.
Vocalisation and cantillation
The readings from Mishnah and Zohar as well as some prayers are vocalised.
Former owners and annotations
A illegible owner’s note begins on folio 1r with "Il Libro…."
There a some Italian annotations possibly by the scribe.
Roth’s description of MS Roth 48, cut out from a copy of his printed catalogue, is attached to the front cover verso.
Access and usage
Access
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