[Shaʿare Tsiyon (ḥeleḳ). Baḳashot u-tefilot ke-minhag Teman]. [שערי ציון (חלק). בקשות ותפילות כמנהג תימן]. [Compilation of kabbalistic prayers].
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: [Shaʿare Tsiyon (ḥeleḳ). Baḳashot u-tefilot ke-minhag Teman]. [שערי ציון (חלק). בקשות ותפילות כמנהג תימן]. [Compilation of kabbalistic prayers].
Classmark: MS ROTH/*79
Creator(s): Hannover, Nathan Nata (1683)(compiler); Horowitz, Isaiah (1565-1630)(author)
Date(s): [18th century]
Language: Hebrew
Size and medium: 138 leaves : paper, illustrations
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/115503
Description
Title supplied by cataloguer.
Variant titles:
Tefilot ʿal derekh ha-ḳabalah. תפילות על דרך הקבלה.
Tiḳunim. תיקונים
תקונים.
Tiḳun. תיקון.
Summary:
Incomplete; probably at least 36 leaves at beginning are missing. Item comprises two parts written most likely by the same hand:
1. folios 3–98: First two chapters and part of the third chapter of Sha’arei Tsiyon by Natan Neṭaʻ ben Mosheh Hanover: תקון חצות (folio 3r; תקון הנפש (folio 24v); תקוני תפלות (folio 35r).
2. folios 99–138: Petitionary prayers, many of them kabbalistic, among them בקשה מועילה לחן ולחסד ולכל צורך: יה י׳׳י ישעי י׳׳י יחידתי הצל והושיעני (folio 104r); בקשה ותפלה לר[בי] ש[מעון] שבזי ז"ל מיוסדת בסוד כוז"ו להחזיר האדם בתשובה ולהתיש יצר הרע: כביר ואדיר זכאי (folio 107v); תפלה לכל דבר: רבון העולמים בעל הסליחות (folio 108r); בקשה לרבי ישמעאל בן אלישע: אמר רבי ישמאל כל האומר בקשה זו… אנא השם י״י אלהי ישראל (folio 118r); תפלת אליהו הנביא (folio 125v); תפלת הבחורים כתב בעל של"ה [ישעיה בן אברהם הלוי הורװיץ] … יהי רצון מלפניך (folio 131v); בקשה על גלות השכינה (folio 133r); בקשה נאה: אצעק אקרא אל (folios 135v–138r).
State of text: Incomplete; stained and mutilated, pest-damage; underwent conservation work.
Bibliographical note:
National Library of Israel (NLI), Online Catalogue, system-no. 990001856970205171. The NLI’s description is based on the microfilm of MS Roth *79 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. *79.
Decoration
Decoration 1: Special representation of Tetragrammaton (folio [28v]); it is found in most printed editions of Sha’arei Tsiyon in תקון הנפש.
Decoration 2: Headings, some with ornaments.
Decoration 3: Several different substitutes for Tetragrammaton (most likely by one hand).
Decoration 4: Catchwords.
Decoration 5: Maintenance of left margin.
Decoration 6: Some poetic spacing.
Physical characteristics
Foliation: iii (i is paste-down) + i (original fly-leaf; surviving part pasted to front paste-down) + ii (foliated as 1–2) + 136 (foliated as 3–138) + i (original fly-leaf; surviving part pasted on back paste-down) + iii (iii is paste-down); modern pencil-foliation, upper left recto; folios 3–36 are foliated by the scribe in ink as לז to עב; folio is [138v] are blank.
Catchwords: horizontal, versos and rectos (some are not repeated on following page but text continues; no loss of text).
Number of lines: 14-16.
Script: Yemenite square Hebrew script.
Ms. codex: width 79mm height 111mm
Binding
Full leather binding over boards; blind-tooled designs on both boards; spine is divided by 2 raised bands into 3 compartments, each of which is decorated with blind-tooled designs. Item was rebound with its orginial boards (the latter are upside down in relation to the text); gilt-lettered with MS Roth 79 by conservation.
Vocalisation and cantillation
All liturgical parts are vocalised.
Former owners and annotations
Flourished Hebrew owner's notes in extant part of front and back paste-downs. Pen trials on front fly-leaves.
Roth acquired MS Roth *79 most likely after 1950; it is not listed in his, "Catalogue", in Alexander Marx: Jubilee Volume, vol. 1 (New York, 1950), 503–35.
Access and usage
Access
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