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Seder ḥalitsah meha-Rav k. mo. ha-r. R. Ḥizḳiyah Mordekhai Baśan z. ts. ṿe-ḳ. l. / hoʿotaḳ mi-S. Pene Yitsḥaḳ be-tosefet hagahot mi-sedarim aḥerim … me-et Yishmaʾel Kohen s.ṭ. סדר חליצה מהרב כמוהר"ר חזקיה מרדכי בשאן זצוק"ל / הועתק מס' פני יצחק בתוספת הגהות מסדרים אחרים ... מאת הק' ישמעאל כהן ס''ט. [Order of the ceremony to release a widow and her brother-in-law from the obligation to marry, copied from Sefer Pene Isaac and annotated in consultation with other works by Ishmael ben Abraham Isaac Cohen, rabbi of Modena].

Archive Judaica File: MS ROTH/312

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Type of record: Archive

Title: Seder ḥalitsah meha-Rav k. mo. ha-r. R. Ḥizḳiyah Mordekhai Baśan z. ts. ṿe-ḳ. l. / hoʿotaḳ mi-S. Pene Yitsḥaḳ be-tosefet hagahot mi-sedarim aḥerim … me-et Yishmaʾel Kohen s.ṭ. סדר חליצה מהרב כמוהר"ר חזקיה מרדכי בשאן זצוק"ל / הועתק מס' פני יצחק בתוספת הגהות מסדרים אחרים ... מאת הק' ישמעאל כהן ס''ט. [Order of the ceremony to release a widow and her brother-in-law from the obligation to marry, copied from Sefer Pene Isaac and annotated in consultation with other works by Ishmael ben Abraham Isaac Cohen, rabbi of Modena].

Level: File

Classmark: MS ROTH/312

Creator(s): Ishmael ben Abraham Isaac ha-Kohen (1723-1811)(scribe); Bassani, Hezekiah Mordecai ben Samuel Hayyim (1703)(author)

Date(s): [c 1743–c 1806]

Language: Hebrew

Size and medium: 14 leaves : paper

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/115634

Description

Hebrew title supplied from folio 3r. English title supplied by cataloguer.


Likely an autograph of Ishmael ben Abraham Isaac ha-Kohen, rabbi of Modena (1723-1811).


Folio 12: Addition by the scribe: סדר קשר המנעל של חליצה העתקתיו מנימוקי כמוהר׳׳ר אי׳׳ש ג׳׳ר ז׳׳ל ‏[‏=‏אברהם יוסף שלמה בן מרדכי גראציאנו‏]‏.


State of text: Well preserved.


Bibliographical note:

Roth, "Catalogue", in Alexander Marx: Jubilee Volume, vol. 1 (New York, 1950), no. 312.

National Library of Israel (NLI), Online Catalogue, system-no. 990001858750205171. The NLI’s description is based on the microfilm of MS Roth 312 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. 312.

Physical characteristics

Foliation: ii (i is paste-down) + 13 (foliated as 1–11, [12], 12[=13]) + i (original fly-leaf) + ii (ii is paste-down); modern pencil foliation, upper left recto; folios 1v–2v and 12v are blank.

Catchwords: horizontal, rectos and versos.

Number of lines: 24–27.

Script: Italian cursive Hebrew script.

Ms.: width 147mm height 207mm

Binding

(20th-century) full brown cloth over boards. Held in a custom-made box covered with brown cloth.

Scribal information

Likely written by the compiler of the item, Ishmael ben Abraham Isaac ha-Kohen, rabbi of Modena (1723-1811).

Former owners and annotations

Names of people and witnesses (in Hebrew) which took part in a ḥalitsah ceremony are inscribed by a second hand in folios 1r and 13v.


Roth’s description of MS Roth 312, cut out from a copy of his printed catalogue, and his ex-libris are attached to front paste-down.

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