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[Hafṭarot le-Fesaḥ be-targum Arami u-shene piyuṭim li-fetiḥat Aron ha-Ḳodesh be-Fesaḥ, Shavuʿot, Sukot, ṿe-khu.]. [הפטרות לפסח בתרגום ארמי ושני פיוטים לפתיחת ארון הקדש בפסח, שבועות, סוכות, וכו׳]. [Prophetical readings for Passover in Aramaic translation and 2 hymns to be recited before opening the Torah ark during festivals].

Archive Judaica Piece: MS ROTH/44/3

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Type of record: Archive

Title: [Hafṭarot le-Fesaḥ be-targum Arami u-shene piyuṭim li-fetiḥat Aron ha-Ḳodesh be-Fesaḥ, Shavuʿot, Sukot, ṿe-khu.]. [הפטרות לפסח בתרגום ארמי ושני פיוטים לפתיחת ארון הקדש בפסח, שבועות, סוכות, וכו׳]. [Prophetical readings for Passover in Aramaic translation and 2 hymns to be recited before opening the Torah ark during festivals].

Level: Piece

Classmark: MS ROTH/44/3

Creator(s): Carpi, Yehudah (fl 1699)(poet)

Date(s): [18th century]

Language: Hebrew; Aramaic

Size and medium: 10 leaves : paper

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/721630

Description

Title supplied by cataloguer.


Variant titles:

Targum Arami le-Neviʾim (hafṭarot le-Fesaḥ). תרגום ארמי לנביאים ‏(‏הפטרות לפסח‏)‏.

Tefilot lomar ḳodem petiḥat Aron ha-Ḳodesh. תפילות לומר קודם פתיחת ארון הקדש ‏.


Contents:

1. folios 12r–17r: [הפטרות לפסח בתרגום ארמי].

2. folios 17v–18r: אפתח שאומרים בפסח בשבועות ובסוכות קודם לפתוח הארון; ‎hymn by Matityah ben Yitsḥak, beginning אפתח נא שפתי ואענה ברון of Bolonyah (מתתיה בן יצחק מבולוניא).

3. folios 18r–19r: אפתח שאומרים בראש השנה, ביום הכפורים וביום הושענא רבא קודם לפתוח הארון; hymn by Yehudah Ḳarpi (acrostic), beginning ‎ ‏אפתח נא שפתי בצדק (see also folios 5r–6r of MS Roth 44).


State of text: Staining.


MS Roth 44/3 is part of the composite codex (Sammelband) MS Roth 44 (see also the records of MS Roth 44, 44/1, 44/2, 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. The microfilm can now be downloaded in a digitised form from the NLI-webpage.

Davis, Handlist 164 (Leeds, 2005), no. 44.

Physical characteristics

Foliation: 8 (foliated as 12–19) + ii (item’s blank leaves); modern pencil foliation, upper left recto; folio 19v is blank.

Catchwords: horizontal, versos and rectos. 

Ruling: frame-ruled in pencil; 13 ruled long lines + two short ruled lines for running titles and catchwords (prickings in outer margins).

Number of lines: generally 13 + running titles and catchwords.

Script: Italian Hebrew script.

Ms. component part: width 81mm height 139mm

Vocalisation and cantillation

Majority of the hafṭarot are vocalised and cantillated. The first hymn is vocalised.

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