[Kanfe yonah : ḥeleḳ 1–2 / me-et Menaḥem ʿAzaryah mi-Fano]. [כנפי יונה :חלק א׳-ב׳ / מאת מנחם עזריה מפאנו].
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Type of record: Archive
Title: [Kanfe yonah : ḥeleḳ 1–2 / me-et Menaḥem ʿAzaryah mi-Fano]. [כנפי יונה :חלק א׳-ב׳ / מאת מנחם עזריה מפאנו].
Classmark: MS ROTH/410
Creator(s): Fano, Menahem Azariah da (1548-1620)(author)
Date(s): [17th–18th century]
Language: Hebrew
Size and medium: 76 leaves : paper
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/115656
Description
Hebrew title supplied from heading (probably added later) on first leaf recto and by cataloguer.
Part 2 is incomplete; breaks up in the middle of chapter 46.
Contents:
1. folio 1–61: Part 1.
2. folio 61–64: זוהר כתיבת יד פרשת בלק (Zohar, ketivat yad : parashat Balaḳ).
3. folio 65: blank.
4. folio 66–74: Part 2, until chapter 46.
Part 2 (folios 66–74) is written by a second hand.
State of text: Incomplete (see above); closely trimmed margins; some staining and tears, especially in the last quire of the item; item underwent conservation work.
Insertion:
Fragment of leaf not connected to the content of MS Roth 410; inscribed with jottings, "Psalmi de Davide" and "1780" on one side, and on the other with a Hebrew benediction.
Bibliographical note:
Roth, "Catalogue", in Alexander Marx: Jubilee Volume, vol. 1 (New York, 1950), no. 410.
National Library of Israel (NLI), Online Catalogue, system-no. 990001859150205171. The NLI’s description is based on the microfilm of MS Roth 410 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. 410.
Physical characteristics
Foliation: i (upper wrapper cover; same paper as item's leaves) + 74 + i (lower wrapper; same paper as item's leaves); modern pencil foliation, upper left recto; folio 65 is blank.
Catchwords: horizontal, generally on rectos and versos.
Ruling: traces of some horizontal ruled lines in pencil or plummet, and of vertical bounding lines in hard point.
Number of lines: folios 1–64: generally 21; folios 66–74: generally 36.
Script: Italian cursive Hebrew script.
Ms.: width 143mm height 208mm
Binding
Thick white paper wrapper overcover on thin paper wrapper made of same paper as item’s quires; both inserted into archival paper wrapper for protection; red-sprinkled leaf edges; held in custom-made box covered with brown cloth.
Scribal information
Written by 2 hands.
Former owners and annotations
Some bibliographical notes in pencil in Roth's hand on first leaf of item.
Roth's ex-libris is attached to upper cover verso of thick paper wrapper.
Roth’s description of MS Roth 410, cut out from a copy of his printed catalogue, is attached to upper cover recto of thin paper wrapper.
Access and usage
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