[Derashot]. [דרשות]. [Sermons].
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: [Derashot]. [דרשות]. [Sermons].
Classmark: MS ROTH/712
Creator(s): Noṿairah, Menaḥem ben Yitsḥaḳ (1717-1777)(Author)
Date(s): [1765–1777]
Language: Hebrew; Italian
Size and medium: 30 leaves : paper
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/115735
Description
The booklet is most probably an autograph of Menaḥem ben Yitsḥaḳ Noṿairah (1717–1777). It contains two sermons by him which he recorded in Hebrew and partly in Italian, the language in which the sermons were most likely delivered.
According to Menahem's own statement, he performed the first sermon in front of the ‘confraternity for the watch of the moon’ of the Spanish community on 25 December 1764 (1 Tevet [5]524), and the second in commemoration of the segregation of the Jews in the Ghetto in 1605 (should be 1601), on 22 January 1765 (see on the left side recto of the wrapper).
Contents:
1. folio 1r–6r: "[דרוש] לגמרה של תורה ראש טבת שנת אתה ת'ע'נ'ה' ה' אלהי לפ[רט] ק[טן] בחברת משמרת החדש ק[הל] ק[דוש] י[צ"ו] ספרדים".
2. folio 7r–14r: ליל ראש חדש שבט בכניסת חצר הגיטו שנת קס''ה שנת הת'ק'כ'ה״".
State of text:
Some leaves are damaged by pests with loss of text.
Form and layout of the booklet are nearly identical with that of three other booklets in Roth’s collection (MS Roth 713–15). These booklets also contain sermons authored by Menaḥem Noṿairah and are most probably written in his own hand. Together, the four booklets are a set of expositions and sermons delivered by Menaḥem Noṿairah on several occasions between the years 1758 and 1776.
Bibliographical note:
Roth "Rabbi Menahem Navarra", JQR 15 (1925): 427–66.
Roth, “Catalogue,” in Alexander Marx: Jubilee Volume, vol. 1 (New York, 1950), no. 712.
National Library of Israel (NLI), Online Catalogue, system-no. 000186015 and 000186016. The NLI’s description is based on the microfilm of MS Roth 712 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. 712.
Part of the second sermon on occasion of the commemoration of the establishment of the Ghetto in Verona is published by Cecil Roth, "La fête de l'institution du ghetto: une célébration particulière a Vérone", in Revue des Etudes Juives 79 (1924), 163-69.
Physical characteristics
Dimensions of written space: 176 x 143 mm. (irregular).
Dimensions of binding: 197 x 147 mm.
Foliation/pagination: folios 30 (foliated [1], 1–29); modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto, increasing from left to right; folio [1] is blank.
Collation: 1³⁰.
Number of lines: irregular.
Script: Sephardic semi-cursive and square Hebrew script.; Italian cursive Latin script.
Ms. codex: width 147mm height 197mm
Binding
The gathering is stitch-bound into a thick, formerly white, contemporary paper wrapper.
Roth’s description of MS Roth 712, cut out from a copy of his printed catalogue, is glued below the upper edge of the right wrapper recto. Below this, a small label, “The Cecil Roth Collection”, is attached. These make-shift labels were probably made and attached by Roth himself.
Scribal information
The scribe was most likely Menaḥem ben Yitsḥaḳ Noṿairah.
Access and usage
Access
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