Le-El ʿolam netaneh shir / [me-et Mordekhai Daṭo]. לאל עולם נתנה שיר / [מאת מרדכי דטו]. [Hymn recited in some Italian communities on Sabbath eve].

Description

Hebrew title supplied from beginning of hymn in folio 1r. English title follows Roth, "Catalogue", in Alexander Marx: Jubilee Volume, vol. 1 (New York, 1950), no. 51 (v).


Contrary to what is indicated by Roth, "Catalogue", in Alexander Marx: Jubilee Volume, vol. 1 (New York, 1950), no. 51 (v), MS Roth 51/5 contains only one hymn. It is authored by Mordekhai Daṭo (1525-1601?) and relates to the Thirteen Principles of Faith (שלשה עשר עקרים); probably printed for the first time in ספר שירים ותשבחות (Florence, 1755), folio [2r] (Davidson, Otsar, vol. 3 (New York 1930), 11, no. 215).


State of text:

Worn and slightly mutilated; ink corrosion and creases in folios 1 and 11 with some loss of text.


Bibliographical note:

Roth, “Catalogue”, in Alexander Marx: Jubilee Volume, vol. 1 (New York, 1950), no.51 (v).

National Library of Israel (NLI), Online Catalogue, system-no. 000185651.

The NLI’s description is based on the microfilm of MS Roth 51,i–viii 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. The microfilm makes the eight different manuscripts defined as MS Roth 51,i–viii appear to be one codex, i.e., ḳovets,

and subsequently the NLI catalogue treats them as such (see record-no 000185639). This means that the 12 single NLI records dedicated to MS Roth 51 are describing the textual units it contains and not the codicological ones.

Davis, Handlist 164 (Leeds, 2005), no. 51 (v).

Decoration

Decoration 1: Poetic spacing.

Decoration 2: Elongated letters.

Physical characteristics

Script: Italian square Hebrew script.

Ms.: width 91mm height 127mm

Binding

Stitch-bound into white cardboard wrapper.

On the wrapper's upper cover recto "MS 51/5" in pencil and, below that, in black ink, שיר משובח לקבלת שבת, most likely in Roth's hand. Further below, again in pencil and probably in Roth's hand, "not in Davidson but in ברכות והודאות (Florence 1760)". The proper title of the publication, to which Roth refers, is ספר שירים ותשבחות. Its publication date has to be derived from an unmarked chronogram on its title page, and is mostly read as 515 not 520.


"51/4" are noted in pencil. On the wrapper's upper cover verso "MS Roth 51/4" is noted in pencil.

Vocalisation and cantillation

The hymn is vocalised.

Scribal information

Written in one professional hand.

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