[Sefer Biḳurim]. [ספר בקורים]. [Regulations for visiting the sick and dying].
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: [Sefer Biḳurim]. [ספר בקורים]. [Regulations for visiting the sick and dying].
Classmark: MS ROTH/316
Creator(s): Bassani, Hezekiah Mordecai ben Samuel Hayyim (1703)(scribe, compiler); Horowitz, Isaiah (1565-1630)(Author); Aaron Berechiah ben Moses of Modena (1639)(Author)
Date(s): 447 [1686 or 1687]
Language: Hebrew
Size and medium: 16 leaves : paper
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/115638
Description
Hebrew title supplied by cataloguer from title page of the first printing of the work in Venice 1704.
English title supplied from Roth, "Catalogue", in Alexander Marx: Jubilee Volume, vol. 1 (New York, 1950), no. 316.
Alternative titles
Mitsvot biḳurim. מצות בקורים.
Bikur ḥolim. ביקור חולים.
Catalogued by the NLI as תקנות חברת בקור חולים בוירונה.
On the first extant title page: הרי אלו מצות בקורים. חברת בקור חולים. חברם[!] מקשיבים אשר נועדו ... במסורת הברית לקיים ... בקור חולים כראוי ולעמוד אצל החולים בשעת אמירת הוידוי, וכן בשעת יציאת נשמה וסדרים ינעם בסדר זמנים, סדר הוידוי וסדר הפסוקים וידוים בעת יציאת נשמה, קצתם נלקטו מהרב בעל מעבר יבק [אהרן ברכיה ב"ר משה ממודינא], ומהרב בעל שני לחות הברית [ישעיה הלוי הורוויץ], עם כמה פסוקים תפילות וידוים וסדרים אשר סדרו פה ק"ק וירונה ממני הצעיר ממני הצעיר מרדכי בכה"ר שמואל חיים בשאן.
Date of creation:
The date 447 [1686 or 1687] is derived from the chronogram ה'ו'ש'י'ע'נ'ו' provided in the statement of responsibility below the Igeret Sheluḥah in folio 3r (see below scribal information).
Bibliographical note:
Roth, “Catalogue”, in Alexander Marx: Jubilee Volume, vol. 1 (New York, 1950), no. 316.
National Library of Israel (NLI), Online Catalogue, system-no. 990001858880205171. The NLI’s description is based on the microfilm of MS Roth 316 made on behalf of the Institute for Microfilmed Hebrew Manuscripts of the NLI during the 1960s. The microfilm can now be downloaded in a digitized form from the NLI-webpage.
Davis, Handlist 164 (Leeds, 2005), no. 316.
Decoration
The general layout of the text as well as its title page imitate those of contemporary printed Hebraic texts:
Decoration 1: Big bold title on title page with elements from scroll script as decoration.
Decoration 2: Different script sizes and types. Initial words, sentences and headings of passages are written in square script or in bigger, ornamental cursive.
Decoration 3: Maintenance of left margin.
Decoration 4: Layout reflects structure of text.
Physical characteristics
Dimensions of written space: generally 18 x 12 mm.
Dimensions of binding: 210 x 135 mm. (right cover); 210 x 155 mm. (left cover).
Foliation: i + 14 (first leaf is cut out; remaining leaves are foliated as 1–13) + 13 (all leaves cut out) + ii; modern pencil foliation, upper left recto; folio 4v is blank.
Collation: 1¹⁵(wants 2, before folio 1, with loss of text and 16–30, maybe most with loss of text).
Catchwords: at the bottom of the left outer and inner margin of every page of folios 2, 4r–6r, 7r–13r.
Ruling: nearly indiscernible.
Number of lines: 15–37.
Script: Italian cursive and square Hebrew script.
Ms. fragment: width 152mm height 210mm
Binding
Unprofessionally sewn into a crude wrapper made out of thick formerly white handmade paper which is now brown and stained; the wrapper's sides do not match and do not cover the item completely.
Scribal information
MS Roth is likely an autograph of Ḥizḳiyah Mordekhai ben Shemuʾel Ḥayim Baśan (Bassani) (1620/30–1703), that is, he was possibly not only the editor and co-author of the text but also its scribe; the statement of responsibility below the אגרת שלוחה (folio 3r) reads:הני כְהני שלוחי דרחמנא חברת בקור חולים הכתובים פה ק''ק וירונה יע''א שנת רפאנו ה' ונרפא ה'ו'ש'י'ע'נ'ו' ונושעה: מרדכי בכה''ר שמואל חיים בשאן ז''ל חוקם בשם החברים.
Former owners and annotations
Roth’s description of MS Roth 316, cut out from a copy of his printed catalogue, is attached to the right cover verso.
Access and usage
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