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[Shir la-ḥatunah shel Yosef ben Yiśraʾel Mosheh ha-Kohen ṿe-Kolombah bat Yiśraʾel ha-Leṿi Fubini / me-et Menaḥem ben Yitsḥaḳ Noṿairah]. [שיר לחתונה של יוסף בן ישראל משה הכהן וקולומבה בת ישראל הלוי פוביני / מאת מנחם בן יצחק נווירה]. [Poem for the wedding of Joseph ben Israel Moses Cohen and Colomba bat Israel Levi Fubini / by Menahem Navarra].

Archive Judaica Piece: MS ROTH/115/7

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Type of record: Archive

Title: [Shir la-ḥatunah shel Yosef ben Yiśraʾel Mosheh ha-Kohen ṿe-Kolombah bat Yiśraʾel ha-Leṿi Fubini / me-et Menaḥem ben Yitsḥaḳ Noṿairah]. [שיר לחתונה של יוסף בן ישראל משה הכהן וקולומבה בת ישראל הלוי פוביני / מאת מנחם בן יצחק נווירה]. [Poem for the wedding of Joseph ben Israel Moses Cohen and Colomba bat Israel Levi Fubini / by Menahem Navarra].

Level: Piece

Classmark: MS ROTH/115/7

Creator(s): Noṿairah, Menaḥem ben Yitsḥaḳ (1717-1777)(poet)

Date(s): [18th century]

Language: Hebrew

Size and medium: 1 sheet : paper

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/721640

Description

Title supplied by cataloguer.


Variant titles:

Epithalamion.

Shir ḥatunah. שיר חתונה.


Groom’s name: ר׳ יוסף בן … ר׳ ישראל משה הכהן.

Bride’s name: קולומבה בת ישראל הלוי פוביני בן כמור׳׳ר אברהם שמשון [בן ישראל] הלוי פוביני זצוק׳׳ל (Abram Sanson ben Israel Levi Fubini (אשל׳׳ף) was rabbi in Torino in the 18th century (see Mortara, Indice alfabetico, (Padua, 1886), 25)).


Opening of poem’s introduction: הרי זו מצות עשה שהזמן גרמא הנה העת עת דודים.


Openings words of poem’s Hebrew version: ‏עת אתנה לב לתור לדעת‏.


Signature: מנחמם נויירא צעירא … ק׳׳ק וירונה.


State of text: Damage (hole) in centre with loss of text; felting paper; creased; ink smudges; very fragile.


MS Roth 115 is the class mark which Roth assigned to a collection of handwritten and printed broadsides, which he describes as a “portfolio of occasional poems, mainly epithalamia, presented to the bride and bridegroom on their marriage: some in folio or double folio, and to a large extent in the form of enigmas … mainly from Italy, 17th–18th centuries” (Roth, “Catalogue”, in Alexander Marx: Jubilee Volume, vol. 1 (New York, 1950), no. 115). When Roth’s collection came to Leeds, MS Roth 115 contained 14 handwritten and 23 printed items. The manuscript items are catalogued now as MS Roth 115/1–14.


Bibliographical note:

Roth, “Catalogue”, in Alexander Marx: Jubilee Volume, vol. 1 (New York, 1950), no. 115.

National Library of Israel (NLI), Online Catalogue, system-no. 990001857170205171. The NLI’s description is based on the microfilm of MS Roth 115 made on behalf of the Institute for Microfilmed Hebrew Manuscripts of the NLI during the 1960s. The microfilm does picture many items which have not been found among the items transferred to Leeds; the microfilm does not picture the printed items originally contained in MS Roth 115. MS Roth 115/7 is numbered as “D3” in the microfilm.

Davis, Handlist 164 (Leeds, 2005), no. 115.

Physical characteristics

Ruling: frame-ruled in hard point.

Number of lines: 21 lines (introduction) + 36 lines alternating in 2 or 3 columns (poem) + 3 lines (signature).

Script: Italian cursive Hebrew script.

Ms.: width 386mm height 494mm

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