[Derashot]. [דרשות]. [Sermons].
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: [Derashot]. [דרשות]. [Sermons].
Classmark: MS ROTH/715
Creator(s): Noṿairah, Menaḥem ben Yitsḥaḳ (1717-1777)(Author)
Date(s): [1758–1777]
Language: Hebrew; Italian
Size and medium: 28 leaves : paper
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/115738
Description
The booklet is most probably an autograph of Menaḥem ben Yitsḥaḳ Noṿairah (1717–1777). It contains four of his sermons about the weekly Torah readings which he delivered during the months Av and Elul of the year [5]518, that is August and September 1758. The one he performed on Shabat Naḥamu, the Shabbat of Consolation, on 15 Av [5]518, that is, Saturday 19 August 1758 was a commemorative homily about the land of Israel “as it was ordained by the ancient community” (see folio 2r).
Contents:
The Italian as well as the Hebrew parts of the texts are organized from left to right. Therefore a foliation from left to right is supplied here.
folio [1r]–[7v]: "פ[רשת] ואתחנן ונחמו ט''ו לחדש אב...זכרון לארץ הקדושה".
folio [8r]–[14r]: " פ[רשת] עקב".
folio [14r]–[16r]: "פ[רשת] ראה" .
folio [16r]–[25r]: "פ[רשת] שופטים".
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 712–14). 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. 715.
National Library of Israel (NLI), Online Catalogue, system-no. 000186018. The NLI’s description is based on the microfilm of MS Roth 715 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. 715.
Physical characteristics
Dimensions of written space: 190 x 140 mm. (irregular).
Dimensions of binding: 199 x 148 mm.
Foliation/pagination: folios 28 (foliated [1]–[4], 1–24); modern foliation in pencil, upper left recto, which increases from right to left even though the Italian as well as the Hebrew parts of the text are organized from left to right; [1r], [17], [25v]–[28] are blanks.
Collation: 1²⁸.
Script: Sephardic semi-cursive and square Hebrew script.; Italian cursive Latin script.
Ms. codex: width 148mm height 199mm
Binding
The gathering is stitch-bound into a thick. formerly white, contemporary paper wrapper.
Roth’s description of MS Roth 715, cut out from a copy of his printed catalogue, is glued below the middle of the wrapper's left side recto. Below the upper edge of the wrapper's upper cover recto, a small label, “The Cecil Roth Collection”, is attached. These make-shift labels were probably made and attached by Roth himself.
Vocalisation and cantillation
Vocalisation of some quotations from the Bible.
Scribal information
The scribe was most likely Menaḥem ben Yitsḥaḳ Noṿairah himself.
Access and usage
Access
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