[Shalosh megilot : Shir ha-shirim, Rut, Ḳohelet ʿim targum Arami u-ferush Rashi]. [שלש מגלות : שיר השירים, רות, קהלת עם תרגום ארמי ופירוש רש׳׳י]. [Song of Songs, Ruth and Ecclesiastes with Aramaic targum and Rashi's commentary].
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Type of record: Archive
Title: [Shalosh megilot : Shir ha-shirim, Rut, Ḳohelet ʿim targum Arami u-ferush Rashi]. [שלש מגלות : שיר השירים, רות, קהלת עם תרגום ארמי ופירוש רש׳׳י]. [Song of Songs, Ruth and Ecclesiastes with Aramaic targum and Rashi's commentary].
Classmark: MS ROTH/505
Creator(s): Rashi (1040-1105)(commentator)
Date(s): [17th–18th century]
Language: Hebrew; Aramaic
Size and medium: 65 leaves : paper, illustrations
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/115675
Description
Title supplied by cataloguer.
Variant titles:
Ketuvim. כתובים.
Miḳra : parshanut. מקרא : פרשנות.
שלוש מגילות.
Perush me-et R. Shelomoh ben Yitsḥaḳ. פרוש מאת שלמה בן יצחק.
Contents:
1. folio 2v: הקדמה לרש׳׳י על שיר השירם.
2. folios 3–25: שיר השירים.
3. folios 26r–33r: רות.
4. folio 33v: blank.
5. folios 34r–62r: דברי קהלת.
State of text: Some staining.
Bibliographical note:
Roth, "Catalogue", in Alexander Marx: Jubilee Volume, vol. 1 (New York, 1950), no. 505.
National Library of Israel (NLI), Online Catalogue, system-no. 990001859380205171. The NLI’s description is based on the microfilm of MS Roth 505 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. 505.
Decoration
Folio 3: Decorative border drawn in black ink around heading; edging of heading in red ink.
Physical characteristics
Foliation: ii (i is paste-down) + 64 + i (contemporary leaf) + v (v is paste-down); modern pencil foliation, upper left recto; folios 1r–2r, 33v and 62v–64v are blank; folio 63r was originally blank.
Catchwords: horizontal, rectos and versos, relating to commentary.
Ruling: frame-ruled in hard point; complex ruling.
Number of lines: irregular.
Script: Yemenite Hebrew script.
Ms. codex: width 152mm height 218mm
Binding
Full red-brown cloth over boards; spine is gilt-lettered with מגילות כ''י; a leather label gilt-lettered with "MS Roth 505" is attached to upper spine (likely done in 1998).
Vocalisation and cantillation
Biblical Hebrew text is vocalised with cantillation; Aramaic text is vocalised.
Scribal information
Written by 1 professional hand.
Former owners and annotations
The Hebrew text of Ecclesiates 7:15–17 is added in secondary hand on folio 63r.
Paper label inscribed in ink with "No. 26 שלש מגילות" is attached to item's front fly-leaf recto.
Roth’s description of MS Roth 505, cut out from a copy of his printed catalogue, is attached to front paste-down.
Full red-brown cloth over boards; spine is gilt-lettered with מגילות כ''י; a leather label gilt-lettered with "MS Roth 505" is attached to upper spine (likely done in 1998).
Access and usage
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