Yotser shel yom Hoshaʿna Raba / she-ḥiber Shabtai Beʾer ; ṿe-gam ha-shirim she-omrim be-yamim noraʾim, [Pesaḥ, Sukot, ṿe-khu.] ḳodem petiḥat Aron ha-Ḳodesh [ke-minhag Tsenṭo]. יוצר של יום הושענא רבא / שחבר … שבתי באר ; וגם … השירים שאומרים בימים נוראים, [פסח סוכות, וכו׳] קודם פתיחת ארון הקדש [כמנהג צינטו]. [Hymns for festivals by Shabbtai Beer and others, as recited in Cento].
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Yotser shel yom Hoshaʿna Raba / she-ḥiber Shabtai Beʾer ; ṿe-gam ha-shirim she-omrim be-yamim noraʾim, [Pesaḥ, Sukot, ṿe-khu.] ḳodem petiḥat Aron ha-Ḳodesh [ke-minhag Tsenṭo]. יוצר של יום הושענא רבא / שחבר … שבתי באר ; וגם … השירים שאומרים בימים נוראים, [פסח סוכות, וכו׳] קודם פתיחת ארון הקדש [כמנהג צינטו]. [Hymns for festivals by Shabbtai Beer and others, as recited in Cento].
Classmark: MS ROTH/44/1
Creator(s): Dato, Mordechai(poet); ; Carpi, Yehudah (fl 1699)(poet)
Date(s): [17th century]
Language: Hebrew
Size and medium: 10 leaves : paper, illustrations
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/721628
Description
Hebrew title supplied from title page and by cataloguer. English title supplied by cataloguer.
Variant titles:
Piyuṭim u-tefilot ke-minhag Iṭalyani. פיוטים ותפלות כמנהג איטליאני.
Piyuṭim u-tefilot le-moʿadim. פיוטים ותפילות למועדים.
On title page: אני כותב שמ׳׳י בצינטו.
Item was possibly written for Yehudit, wife of Shemuʾel Ḥay Modena, inhabitant of Cento, folio 10v: זה הספר ממרת יהודית אשת כמ׳׳ר שמואל חי מודונא תושב צינטו (inscription likely by the scribe of the item).
Maybe a copy of יוצר ליום הושענה רבא by Shabtai Beʾer, printed in Venice [1668].
Contents:
1. folio 1r: Title page.
2. folios 2r–4v: יוצר של יום הושענא רבא; hymn by Shabtai Beʿer (acrostic) to be recited during morning service of Hoshana Raba , beginning שערי נהרות נפתחו.
3. folios 5r–6r: בר[אש] ה[שנה] וביום הכפורים והושענא רבא קודם פתיחת ארון הקדש; hymn by Yehudah Ḳarpi (acrostic) to be recited before opening the Torah ark during services on Rosh ha-Shanah, Yom Kipur, and Hoshana Rabbah, opening words: אפתח נא שפתי בצדק.
4. folios 6r–7r: לפסח וסוכות קודם פתיחת ארון הקדש; hymn by Mordekhai Daṭo (acrostic) to be recited before opening the Torah ark during services on Passover and Sukot, opening words: אפתח שיר בשפתי ולשון.
5. folios 7v–8v: לשבועות קודם פתיחת ארון הקדש; hymn to be recited before opening the Torah ark during services on Shavuʿot, opening words: אפתח נא שפתי ולשון.
6. folios 8v–9v: קודם פתיחת ארון הקדש לשמחת תורה ושבת בראשית; hymn by Mordekhai Tsahalon to be recited before opening the Torah ark during services on Śimḥat Torah and Shabat Be-reshit, opening words: אפתח שפתי נא אקרא בקול גרון.
7. folio 10: לימים טובים אחר קדיש קודם עושה שלום יאמר; hymn for festivals to recite after Kadish and before ʿOśeh shalom, opening words: יחיינו מיומים ויפדנו.
8. folio 10v: Owner’s note (see above).
State of text: Some staining and ink seepage.
MS Roth 44/1 is part of the composite codex (Sammelband) MS Roth 44 (see also the records of MS Roth 44, 44/2, 44/3, and 44/4 for a detailed description of the codex).
Bibliographical note:
Roth, “Catalogue”, in Alexander Marx: Jubilee Volume, vol. 1 (New York, 1950), no. 44.
National Library of Israel (NLI), Online Catalogue, system-no. 990001856260205171. The NLI’s description is based on the microfilm of MS Roth 44 made on behalf of the Institute of Microfilmed Hebrew Manuscripts of the NLI during the 1960s (micro-film does not contain photograph of title page (folio 1) of first item). The microfilm can now be downloaded in a digitised form from the NLI-webpage.
Davis, Handlist 164 (Leeds, 2005), no. 44.
Decoration
Title page with decorative border (penwork); poetic spacing; carefully executed layout.
Physical characteristics
Foliation: 10; modern pencil foliation, upper left recto; folio 1v is blank.
Catchwords: horizontal, versos and rectos.
Ruling: frame-ruled in hard point, 15–16 ruled lines.
Number of lines: 12–16.
Script: Italian Hebrew script.
Ms. component part: width 90mm height 147mm
Vocalisation and cantillation
All liturgical parts are vocalised. The hafṭara is cantillated.
Former owners and annotations
Folio 10v: זה הספר ממרת יהודית אשת כמ׳׳ר שמואל חי מודונא תושב צינטו (see also above Description).
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