[Tefilot lomar be-vet ha-ḳevarot (bi-khetav yad), ṿe-Or boḳer / me-et Yosef ben Shelomoh Fiʾameṭa (bi-defus)]. [תפילות לומר בבית הקברות (בכתב יד), ואור בקר / מאת יוסף בן שלמה פיאמיטא (בדפוס)]. [Prayers to be recited in cemetery (manuscript), bound with a printed anthology of prayers published in Venice in 1708/9 for the confraternity Shomrim la-boḳer in Ancona / by Joseph ben Solomon Fiametta].
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Type of record: Archive
Title: [Tefilot lomar be-vet ha-ḳevarot (bi-khetav yad), ṿe-Or boḳer / me-et Yosef ben Shelomoh Fiʾameṭa (bi-defus)]. [תפילות לומר בבית הקברות (בכתב יד), ואור בקר / מאת יוסף בן שלמה פיאמיטא (בדפוס)]. [Prayers to be recited in cemetery (manuscript), bound with a printed anthology of prayers published in Venice in 1708/9 for the confraternity Shomrim la-boḳer in Ancona / by Joseph ben Solomon Fiametta].
Classmark: MS ROTH/*81
Creator(s): Morpurgo, Samson ben Joshua Moses (1681-1740)(poet); (poet); Fiametta, Joseph ben Solomon (1721)(author)
Date(s): [18th century]
Language: Hebrew
Size and medium: 63 leaves : paper
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/115505
Description
Title supplied by cataloguer.
Variant titles:
Tefilot ʿal ḳevarim. תפלות על קברים.
Tefilot ʿal ḳivrot ha-tsadiḳim. תפלות על קברות הצדיקים.
Memorial prayers to be recited at tombs.
Summary:
3 manuscript leaves bound between folios מב and מג of the first edition of Or Boḳer by Yosef ben Shelomoh Fiʾameṭa (Ṿenetsyah: Nella Stamparia Bragadina … per Gio[vanni] de’Pauli, 469 [1708 or 1709]) published by and for the kabbalistic confraternity שומרים לבקר of Ancona.
The manuscript pages contain prayers comprised in the second supplemented edition of Or Boḳer (Venice, 1741), folios מ ע.ב to מג ע.א (see Roth 538 in this collection).
The first prayer is written in square Hebrew script imitating the print’s type face with vocalisation; the second prayer is written in Italian cursive script without vocalisation.
There are some handwritten marginal notes in the print.
Contents: of manuscript part (leaves are not foliated):
1. אנא י׳׳י האל הגדול והנורא שומר הברית [by Shimson ben Yehoshuʿa Mosheh Morpurgo, to be recited at the grave of his father in law Joseph Fiametta (in the manuscript version, the name יוסף פיאמיטא which appears in the print is substituted with פלוני)].
2. מלך בורא בראתנו לעשות רצונך [by Mosheh Ḥayim Shabtai Refaʾel Nisim ben Shimshon Morpurgo, to be recited at the grave of his father] (see Davidson, Otsar, vol. 3, 141, no. 1565).
Bibliographical note:
National Library of Israel (NLI), Online Catalogue, system-no.990001856990205171. The NLI’s description is based on the microfilm of MS Roth *81 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. As of 2020 the NLI records the item erroneously with the title מלא בורא בראתנו לעשות רצונך.
Davis, Handlist 164 (Leeds, 2005), no. *81.
Physical characteristics
Foliation: i (marbled paper; paste-down) + ii (original fly-leaves) + 42 (print; foliated as [א] to מב) + 3 (manuscript; not foliated) + 14 (print; foliated as מג to נו) + ii (original fly-leaves) + i (marbled paper; paste-down); 3rd leaf verso of manuscript part is blank.
Collation: manuscript part: 1⁴(4 is cancelled).
Catchwords: horizontal, verso and recto.
Number of lines: manuscript part: 11–26.
Script: Italian Hebrew script.
Ms. bound with print: width 116mm height 172mm
Binding
18th-century(?) full brown goatskin over boards; blind-tooled fillet roll borders on both covers; spine is divided in 4 compartments by 3 raised bands; upper compartment gilt-lettered with "MS Roth 81"; 2 pairs of green satin ties on board edges; red sprinkled text block edges; marbled paste-down end-papers.
Vocalisation and cantillation
manuscript part: First prayer is vocalised.
Former owners and annotations
On front fly-leaf: משה שמואל נחמן (Mosheh Shemuʾel Naḥman).
Roth acquired MS Roth *81 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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