[Piyuṭim]. [פיוטים].
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Type of record: Archive
Title: [Piyuṭim]. [פיוטים].
Classmark: MS ROTH/55/2
Creator(s): Betsalʾel ben Yitsḥaḳ(Author); Najara, Israel ben Moses (1555?-1625?)(Author)
Date(s): [18th–19th century]
Language: Hebrew
Size and medium: 8 leaves : paper (handmade)
Manifest: https://iiif.library.leeds.ac.uk/presentation/cc/pfh6423l
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/664359
Description
Contents:
1. folios 3r[=1r]–2v: אל חי רוכב ערבו" מאת בצלאל בן יצחק".
2. folio 3: מלא פי תהלך'' מאת ישראל נג'רה."
The fourteen stanzas of the first prayer are numbered with Hebrew letters from 'א toי"ד .
State of Text:
Very thin worn and creased paper with stains; some loss of text.
Watermark is clearly visible.
Transmission of text:
Both hymns are not listed in Israel Davidson, Otsar ha-Shirah, 4 vols. (New York 1970).
Bibliographical note:
Roth, “Catalogue”, in Alexander Marx: Jubilee Volume, vol. 1 (New York, 1950), no.55 (ii).
National Library of Israel (NLI), Online Catalogue, system-no. 000185661. The NLI’s description is based on the microfilm of Ms Roth 55 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. 55 (ii).
Physical characteristics
Dimensions of written space: 150 x 102 mm.
Dimensions of binding: 194 x 125 mm.
Foliation: ii + 4 + ii; modern pencil foliation, upper left recto; folio 4 is blank.
Number of lines: 7–16 written to a page.
Script: Italian square Hebrew script.
Ms.: width 133mm height 193mm
Binding
Unprofessionally sewn into a modern crude white cardboard wrapper.
Notes in pencil on wrapper's upper cover verso: "MS 58" and "MS 55/2".
Vocalisation and cantillation
The hymns are not vocalised.
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