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[Ḳovets be-kabalah Luriʾanit : minhagim shel ha-Ari, tiḳunim, kaṿanot, ḳemeʿot, u-tefilot]. [קובץ בקבלה לוריאנית : מנהגים של האר׳׳י, תיקונים, כוונות, קמיעות ותפילות]. [Lurianic-kabbalistic liturgical miscellany : prayers, liturgical traditions, and amulets with collection of customs according to Isaac ben Solomon Luria Ashkenazi].

Archive Judaica File: MS ROTH/*80

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Type of record: Archive

Title: [Ḳovets be-kabalah Luriʾanit : minhagim shel ha-Ari, tiḳunim, kaṿanot, ḳemeʿot, u-tefilot]. [קובץ בקבלה לוריאנית : מנהגים של האר׳׳י, תיקונים, כוונות, קמיעות ותפילות]. [Lurianic-kabbalistic liturgical miscellany : prayers, liturgical traditions, and amulets with collection of customs according to Isaac ben Solomon Luria Ashkenazi].

Level: File

Classmark: MS ROTH/*80

Creator(s): Luria, Isaac ben Solomon (1534-1572)(author)

Date(s): [c 1713–1799]

Language: Hebrew

Size and medium: 170 leaves : paper, illustrations

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/115504

Description

Title supplied by cataloguer.


Variant titles:

Tefilot ʿal derekh ha-ḳabalah. תפלות על דרך הקבלה.

Tiḳunim. תקונים.

Tiḳun. תיקון

Minhage ha-Ari. מנהגי האר"י.


Date of production:

A colophon with chronogram (see below Scribal information) on folio 140r provides the date 9 Ṭeṿet 474 (27 December 1713).


Summary:

Notebook-like item, maybe written by multiple hands; contains customs, traditions, prayers and amulets according to (Lurianic) kabbalah, among them: מנהגים של האר"י (folio 1v); תיקונים (folio 10r); הנהגות הרב בסועדה (folio 17r); כתר מלכות [by דוד בן שלמה אבן זמרא] (folio 52r); סדר קריאת ליל שבועות (folio 77r); ראש חדש אלול (leaf after folio 87); ענין ראש השנה (folio 88r) with כונת העמידה (folio 88v) and סוד השופר (folio 110r); עניו הסוכה (folio 115r); סדר תפלות לעתות בצרה (folio 118r); ליל בהושענה רבה (folio 133r); מצלאין לחולה (folio 146); סדר שינוי השם (folio 150v).


State of text: Closely trimmed margins with some loss of text; slightly worn; item underwent conservation work.


Bibliographical note:

National Library of Israel (NLI), Online Catalogue, system-no. 990001856980205171. The NLI’s description is based on the microfilm of MS Roth 80* 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. *80.

Decoration

Decoration 1: Small table relating to permutations of angelic names (folio 135v).

Decoration 2: Graphic representation of Tetragrammaton (folio 137r).

Decoration 3: Doubled vertical dividing line in ink between columns drawn without ruler.

Decoration 4: Cluster of three points below textual units.

Decoration 5: Some running titles.

Decoration 6: Catchwords.

Decoration 7: Some poetic spacing

Physical characteristics

Foliation: ii (marbled paper; i is paste-down) + ii (ii is pasted to previous end-paper) + 170 (foliated as 1–9, [10], 10[=11]–54[=55], 54[=56], 56[=57]–87[=88], [89], 88[=90]–140[=142], [143], 141[=144], [145], 142[=146]–166[=170]) + ii (ii is pasted to following end-paper) + ii (marbled paper; ii is paste-down); modern pencil foliation, generally upper left recto; folios 140v, the leaf after 140r, folio 145r, as well as 166 are blank; folios 141r, and 144v are nearly blank; folio 165v was originally blank.

Catchwords: horizontal, below most columns (folios 1–76, 118–132, and 146r–165r), and generally on rectos and versos (folios 77–117, and 133–140); some catchwords are probably trimmed-off.

Ruling: Double vertical line drawn in ink, without ruler, between columns (folios 1–76, 118–132, and 146r–165r).

Number of lines: 17–36 (very irregular).

Number of columns: 2 (folios 1–76, 118–132, and 146r–165r).

Script: Eastern Hebrew script.

Ms. codex: width 110mm height 156mm

Binding

Quarter red goatskin bound with red cloth (imitation of goat-skin) over boards; upper and lower cover are decorated with imitation of blind-tolled fillet roll border; spine is divided in five compartments by four raised bands (imitation?); compartments are decorated with gilt-embossed designs; upper comparment is gilt-lettered with "MS Roth 80"; the one below it is gilt-lettered with "Hebrew Prayers Manuscript"; brownish-blue marbled end-papers; marbled text block edges; underwent conservation work (boards are now upside down in relation to the text).

Vocalisation and cantillation

Some words and divine names are vocalised.

Scribal information

Maybe written by multiple hands.

Former owners and annotations

Owner's notes (folio 165v): יאודה איויאן. Pen-trials and crude drawings of heads next to owner's notes.


Roth acquired MS Roth *80 most likely after 1950; it is not listed in his, "Catalogue", in Alexander Marx: Jubilee Volume, vol. 1 (New York, 1950), 503–35.

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