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[Shir la-ḥatunah shel Mosheh Ḥayim ben Neḥemyah Ḥai Kohen ṿe-Neḥamah bat Shemuʾel Menaḥem Kohen / me-et Yaʿaḳov Daniyel Olmo]. [שיר לחתונה של משה חיים בן נחמיה חי כהן ונחמה בת שמואל מנחם כהן / מאת יעקב דניאל אולמו]. [Poem for the wedding of Moses Chayim ben Nehemiah Hai Cohen and his cousin Nehama / by Jacob Daniel Olmo].

Archive Judaica File: MS ROTH/105

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Type of record: Archive

Title: [Shir la-ḥatunah shel Mosheh Ḥayim ben Neḥemyah Ḥai Kohen ṿe-Neḥamah bat Shemuʾel Menaḥem Kohen / me-et Yaʿaḳov Daniyel Olmo]. [שיר לחתונה של משה חיים בן נחמיה חי כהן ונחמה בת שמואל מנחם כהן / מאת יעקב דניאל אולמו]. [Poem for the wedding of Moses Chayim ben Nehemiah Hai Cohen and his cousin Nehama / by Jacob Daniel Olmo].

Level: File

Classmark: MS ROTH/105

Creator(s): Olmo, Jacob Daniel ben Abraham (1690-1757)(poet)

Date(s): [c 1750]

Language: Hebrew; Italian

Size and medium: 1 sheet : paper, illustrations

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/115512

Description

Title supplied by cataloguer.


Summary:

Handwritten oversized broad sheet with illuminated floral border and emblem of priesthood (pair of blessing hands under crown). 34 stanzas in two columns‏קול החן‏‏ ‏‎ (groom’s voice) and קול כלה‏‏ (bride’s voice) with an echo-device in Italian in Latin script at the end of each stanza.

The wedding couple belonged to one of the most prominent Jewish families in 18th-century Ferrara.


Poem’s opening words: מי הוא ואיזה הוא.


Bibliographical note:

Cecil Roth, “‏פס יד׳׳א=‎An Epithalamic Tour-de-Force by Yakob Daniel Olmo [in Heb.]”, Melilah 3–4 (1950): 204–23 (full edition of the text).

Roth, “Catalogue”, in Alexander Marx: Jubilee Volume, vol. 1 (New York, 1950), no. 105.

National Library of Israel (NLI), Online Catalogue, system-no. 990001857060205171. The NLI’s description is based on the microfilm of MS Roth 105 made on behalf of the Institute for Microfilmed Hebrew Manuscripts of the NLI during the 1960s.

Frojmovič, Hebraica (Leeds, 1997), no. 12(b).

Davis, Handlist 164 (Leeds, 2005), no. 105.

Decoration

illuminated floral border and emblem of priesthood (pair of blessing hands under crown).

Physical characteristics

Ruling: ruled in pencil (complex ruling).

Number of columns: 2 (in poem).

Script: Italian Hebrew script; Latin script.

Ms.: width 528mm height 780mm

Vocalisation and cantillation

Poem is vocalised.

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