Piyuṭim she-hinhigu le-omram bi-ḳ.ḳ.y. shel ʿir Tsenṭo be-lel Śimḥat Torah ṿe-ʿod nosaf piyuṭ aḥer she-ʾomrim be-yamim noraʾim ḳodem hotsaʾat Sefer Torah.. פיוטים שהנהיגו לאומרם בקק"י של עיר צינטו בליל שמחת תורה ועוד נוסף פיוט אחר שאומרים בימים נוראים קודם הוצאת ספר תורה. [Hymns as recited at Cento].
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Title: Piyuṭim she-hinhigu le-omram bi-ḳ.ḳ.y. shel ʿir Tsenṭo be-lel Śimḥat Torah ṿe-ʿod nosaf piyuṭ aḥer she-ʾomrim be-yamim noraʾim ḳodem hotsaʾat Sefer Torah.. פיוטים שהנהיגו לאומרם בקק"י של עיר צינטו בליל שמחת תורה ועוד נוסף פיוט אחר שאומרים בימים נוראים קודם הוצאת ספר תורה. [Hymns as recited at Cento].
Classmark: MS ROTH/51/1
Creator(s): Segre, Netanʾel ben Aharon Yaʿaḳov (fl 16001699)(Poet); Carpi, Yehudah (fl 1699)(Poet)
Date(s): 555 [1794 or 1795]
Language: Hebrew
Size and medium: 12 leaves : paper
Manifest: https://iiif.library.leeds.ac.uk/presentation/cc/z48d3xtw
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/664622
Description
Hebrew title supplied from title page (folio 1r). English title supplied from Roth, "Catalogue", in Alexander Marx: Jubilee Volume, vol. 1 (New York, 1950), no.51 (i).
Alternative title:
Piyuṭim she-hinhigu le-omram bi-ḳehal ḳedoshim yereʾim shel ʿir Tsenṭo פיוטים שהנהיגו לאומרם בקהל קדושים יראים של עיר צינטו.
Time of creation of the manuscript:
The date is taken from the colophon in the title page (see below scribal information).
Contents:
1. folios 1–7: "י"[ב] פזמונים לליל שמחת תורה" .
2. folios 8r–9r: "פיוט ש אומרים בימים נוראים קודם הוס''ת: אפתח נא שפתי בצדק ובכשרון " by Yehudah Carpi (see Davidson, Otsar ha-Shirah, vol.1 (New York 1924), 327, no. 7198).
3. folios 9v–11r: פיוט יסודות בהדרי קדש לכבד ה' בהביאי ס''ת וכן כשמוציאין כל הס''ת מן היכל ... נוהד יוסף כצאן'' by Netanʼel ben Aharon Yaʻaḳov Segre (see Davidson, Otsar ha-Shirah, vol.3 (New York 1930), 206, no. 208).
Distintinctive features of the material form of the text:
The handwritten booklet imitates the form of printed Hebraic texts through its title page, decorations, catchwords and strict layout (see below).
The last poem is an acrostic of its author's name n.t.ʼe.l. s.g.r.i. b.r.b.i. a.h.r.n. y.a.ḳ.v. ḥ.z.ḳ. The initial letters of every second verse which are making up the name are written in bolder bigger script.
State of text:
Overall rather well preserved thick white paper. Hole, caused by pests, in wrapper's right side and folio i without loss of text.
Bibliographical note:
Roth, “Catalogue”, in Alexander Marx: Jubilee Volume, vol. 1 (New York, 1950), no.51 (i).
National Library of Israel (NLI), Online Catalogue, system-no. 000185640.
The NLI’s description is based on the microfilm of Ms Roth 51 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. 51 (i).
Decoration
Decoration 1: Title page has decorative ornamental border evoking the shape of a gate; is general layout imitates the one to be found in many printed Hebraic texts.
Decoration 2: Running titles.
Decoration 3: Small ornaments between stanzas (folio 10r–11r).
Decoration 4: Different script sizes.
Decoration 5: Substitute for Tetragrammaton.
Decoration 6: Relative strict maintenance of left margin.
Physical characteristics
Dimensions of written space: 120 x 85 mm.
Dimensions of binding: 128 x 103 mm.
Foliation: i + 11; modern pencil foliatioin in upper left recto; 1v and 11 v are blank.
Collation: 1¹².
Catchwords: page catchwords at the bottom of the left inner and outer margin of folio 2–8; folio catchwords at the bottom of the left inner margin of folio 9v and 10v.
Ruling: frame-ruled in dry point; 15 rulings to a page; prickings in outer and inner margins.
Number of lines: 14–17 written to a page.
Script: Italian square and some semi-cursive Hebrew script.
Ms.: width 100mm height 126mm
Binding
Stitch-bound with green thread into, possibly original, paper wrapper of faded red colour.
Vocalisation and cantillation
All poems are vocalised.
Scribal information
Colophon on title page (folio 1r): "נכתב פה פינאלי בשנת התקנ"ה".
Probably copied by a professional scribe in Finale Emilia (Italy).
Former owners and annotations
1. ''לתשוקת היקר כמ"ר קולונימוס קרפי יצ"ו'', that is, "for the pleasure of our honoured teacher, rabbi Ḳalonimus Ḳarpi (Calonymus Carpi)", is stated on an artfully cut-out label attached to the wrapper's upper cover verso.
2. Modern owner's marks and labels:
"MS 68" noted in pencil on i verso.
A small label with the number 51/1 is attached to the wrapper's upper cover recto.
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