[Tsivʾot ha-Shem (Amarot ṭehorot), Yiḥudim ṿe-Tiḳune ha-teshuvah / mi-et Menaḥem ʿAzaryah mi-Fano]. [צבאות השם (אמרות טהורות), יחודים ותקוני התשובה / מאת מנחם עזריה מפאנו].
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Type of record: Archive
Title: [Tsivʾot ha-Shem (Amarot ṭehorot), Yiḥudim ṿe-Tiḳune ha-teshuvah / mi-et Menaḥem ʿAzaryah mi-Fano]. [צבאות השם (אמרות טהורות), יחודים ותקוני התשובה / מאת מנחם עזריה מפאנו].
Classmark: MS ROTH/*424
Creator(s): Fano, Menahem Azariah da (1548-1620)(author)
Date(s): [1570–1619]
Language: Hebrew
Size and medium: 130 leaves : paper
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/115671
Description
Title supplied by cataloguer.
Variant titles:
Ḳovets ḥibure ha-Remaʿmi-Fano. קובץ חבורי הרמ׳׳ע מפנו.
Tsivʾot H. צבאות ה׳.
Ha-Yiḥudim. היחודים.
Tiḳune Teshuvah. תקוני תשובה.
תיקוני תשובה.
Contents:
(The first original leaf of the manuscript is foliated as 2 (modern pencil)).
1. folios 2–42: צבאות ה׳; the text is the ‘last version'of Maʾamar Tsivʾot H. as it was created in Mantua between 1570–1580; it is similar to Ms. Rosenthaliana 57, Bibliotheca Rosenthaliana, Amsterdam, Netherlands (see National Library of Israel (NLI), Online Catalogue, system-no. 990000574400205171) (see on the work, Joseph Avivi, "Kabbalistic Works of the Rema of Fano [in Heb.]", Sefunot, no. 19 (1989), 355–56).
2. folio 43: blank.
3. folios 44–98: יחודים : גם אלו לחכמים גורי האר׳׳י זצ׳׳ל מזה ומזה הם כתובים; containing 173 yiḥudim (on the work, see Avivi, "Kabbalistic Works", 367-8, and Avivi, Ḳabalat Ha-Ari, vol. 1 (Jerusalem, 2008), 400-1).
4. folios 99–130: תקוני התשובה שדרשו גורי האר׳׳י זצוק׳׳ל משמו והוא מהדורא תנינא עם תוספת בעקרף; containing 26 chapters (on the work see Avivi, "Kabbalistic Works", 364–8; and Avivi, Ḳabalat Ha-Ari, 398–401).
Censor’s signature in folio 129v (see below Censors).
State of text: Item underwent conservation work; leaves repaired with tissue.
See MS Roth *425 which is written by the same hand.
Bibliographical note:
National Library of Israel (NLI), Online Catalogue, system-no. 990001794500205171 and 3 depending records; The NLI’s description is based on the microfilm of MS Roth MS Roth *424–*425 made on behalf of the Institute of Microfilmed Hebrew Manuscripts of the NLI during the 1960s; in the microfilm, the volume which is now identified as Ms Roth *425 is identified as MS Roth *424 and vice versa; the microfilm does not picture the last page of תקוני תשובה leading to the erroneous statement that the end of the work is missing. The microfilm can now be downloaded in a digitised form from the NLI-webpage.
Davis, Handlist 164 (Leeds, 2005), no. *424–*425.
On the different editions of the works contained in MS Roth *424, see Joseph Avivi, "Kabbalistic Works of the Rema of Fano [in Heb.]", Sefunot, no. 19 (1989), 355–56, 367–66 (MS Roth 425* is not discussed), and Joseph Avivi, Ḳabalat Ha-Ari, vol. 1 (Jerusalem, 2008), 398–401.
Physical characteristics
Foliation: v (i is paste-down) + i (foliated as 1; machine-made paper) + 129 (foliated as 2–130) + i (item’s fly-leaf; detached, kept with item) + v (v is paste-down); modern pencil foliation, upper left recto; folio 43 is blank.
Catchwords: horizontal, rectos and versos.
Number of lines: generally 25.
Script: Italian cursive Hebrew script.
Ms. codex: width 145mm height 203mm
Binding
16th–17th-century(?) full leather (restored) over thick boards with intricate blind tooled and gilt-embossed decorations (upper and lower cover identical) comprising a two panel design; first panel is constituted by broad blind-tooled border with decorative roll; at its inner angels are gilt floral bouquets in vases with handles; the second panel is constituted by rhombus with blind-tooled broad border roll in centre of first panel; simple gilt flowers at inner angles of rhombus border; a small gilt oval frame containing a small simple flower is the centre piece of the rhombus panel; original spine is not preserved; red text block edges. Binding and item underwent extensive conservation work in the 1990s; item has been rebound and rebacked by conservation; the original covers of boards were remounted on new full leather binding; new spine is gilt-lettered with "MS ROTH 424". MS ROTH/*425 has very similar binding.
Scribal information
Written by 1 professsional hand (MS Roth *425 was written by the same hand).
Censors
"Camillo Jaghel 1619" (folio 130v).
Former owners and annotations
Hebrew pen-trials in Hebrew by a secondary hand (a letter's salutation is repeated several times) on original fly-leaf of MS Roth *424 (detached; kept with the item in a pocket attached to its back paste-down).
Owner’s note in folio 2r (transcription not fully clear).
Stamp with abbreviations in Cyrillic letters on folio 3r.
עשרה מאמרות מאת הרב הגאון המקובל הרמ''ע מפאנו ז''ל is inscribed by a much later hand in ink on front fly-leaf (machine-made; foliated as 1).
Roth acquired MS Roth *424 most likely after 1950; it is not listed in his, "Catalogue", in Alexander Marx: Jubilee Volume, vol. 1 (New York, 1950), 503–35.
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