[Toldot ha-Ari. Sod yesharim : otsar keli ḥemdah yavoʾu bo segulot, maṭmone mistarim, refuʾot, pelaʾot ṿe-divre noraʾot / me-et Yehudah Aryeh ben Yitsḥaḳ mi-Modena]. [תולדות האר׳׳י. סוד ישרים : אוצר כלי חמדה יבואו בו סגולות, מטמוני מסתרים, רפואות, פלאות ודברי נוראות / מאת יהודה אריה בן יצחק ממודינא]. [Account of the birth and marvels of Rabbi Isaac Luria copied with the magical and mystical miscellany of Leone Modena printed in Venice in 355].
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Title: [Toldot ha-Ari. Sod yesharim : otsar keli ḥemdah yavoʾu bo segulot, maṭmone mistarim, refuʾot, pelaʾot ṿe-divre noraʾot / me-et Yehudah Aryeh ben Yitsḥaḳ mi-Modena]. [תולדות האר׳׳י. סוד ישרים : אוצר כלי חמדה יבואו בו סגולות, מטמוני מסתרים, רפואות, פלאות ודברי נוראות / מאת יהודה אריה בן יצחק ממודינא]. [Account of the birth and marvels of Rabbi Isaac Luria copied with the magical and mystical miscellany of Leone Modena printed in Venice in 355].
Classmark: MS ROTH/260
Creator(s): (scribe); Modena, Leone (1571-1648)(author)
Date(s): [17th century]
Language: Hebrew
Size and medium: 32 leaves : paper, illustrations
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/115599
Description
Title supplied by cataloguer.
Variant title: Toledot ha-Ari.
Title page text: הצעיר מנחם שבתי יחייא יצ׳׳ו ...זה ספר תלדות האר׳׳י … נכתב פה לוגו הצעיר מש׳׳י וריקמה.
Sod yesharim was printed for the first time in Venice in 355 (1594 or 1595), followed by several editions in the 17th and 18th century.
Contents:
1. folios 1–26: Toldot ha-Ari.
2. folios 28–29: Sod yesharim by Judah Aryeh di Modena.
State of text: Some staining; relatively well preserved; underwent conservation work.
Bibliographical note:
Roth, "Catalogue", in Alexander Marx: Jubilee Volume, vol. 1 (New York, 1950), no. 260.
National Library of Israel (NLI), Online Catalogue, system-no. 990001858280205171. The NLI’s description is based on the microfilm of MS Roth 260 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. 260.
Decoration
Title page decorated with drawing (inkwork) of an arched gated between two columns (evoking Solomonic columns) with pomegranate design on top.
Physical characteristics
Foliation: i (i is paste-down) + 30 + i (i paste-down); modern pencil foliation, upper left recto; folios 1v, 27 and 30 are blank.
Ruling: frame-ruled; outer bounding lines in plummet; 19 blind-tooled vertical lines (slightly skewed).
Number of lines: generally 19.
Script: Italian Hebrew script.
Ms. codex: width 76mm height 111mm
Binding
17th-century(?) full vellum over boards; part of the ṿidui (וידוי, confession), from אשמנו to עלינו [כי] אמת עשית, is written in ink in geometrical design on cover of upper board; lower board is decorated with blind-tooled lines in the same design, that is, a doubled border whose inner corners are connected with intersecting lines.
Held in a custom-made box covered with brown cloth.
Scribal information
Menaḥem Shabtai Yaḥya (see above in Description).
Former owners and annotations
Roth’s description of MS Roth 260, cut out from a copy of his printed catalogue, is attached to front paste-down.
Access and usage
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