Tsurat ha-ḥidah [la-ḥatunah shel Daṿid ben Yehudah Lombrozo ṿe-Śarah bat Yosef Ferarin / me-et Menaḥem ben Yitsḥaḳ Noṿairah]. צורת החידה ‏[לחתונה של דוד בן יהודה לומברוזו ושרה בת יוסף פירארין‏ /‏ מאת מנחם בן יצחק נווירה‏]‏. [Emblem riddle and enigmatic poem for the wedding of David ben Judah Lombroso and Sara bat Joseph Ferrarin / by Menahem Navarra].

Description

Title supplied from heading and by cataloguer.


Variant titles:

Epithalamion.

Shir ḥatunah. שיר חתונה.


Groom’s name: דוד בן כ׳ יהודא לומברוזו.

Bride’s name: שרה בת כ׳ יוסף פירארין.


Heading: צורת החידה; below heading: Drawing (penwork) of tree trunk with leaves and bird’s head.


Opening words of introduction: מה נכבד היום לצאת ולעדה לשבח ולהודה בצלצלים ונבלים.


Opening words of poem: אם תעמוד עלי ובין דרכי.


Signature: ויקראו בית ישראל את שמי מ׳׳ן; the abbreviation stands for מנחם נווירה (Menaḥem Noṿairah).


The emblem riddle (without illustration) and enigmatic poem are also comprised in MS Roth 102 (folio 3), a personal fair copy book of Menaḥem ben Yitsḥaḳ Noṿairah.


Emblem riddle and poem (written in square script) are richly annotated in cursive script providing the solution of all parts of the riddle; a note above the emblem provides the solution 'olio': החידה הזאת היא על השמן דיינו אוליו‏.


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 115/9 is numbered “C4” in the microfilm.

Frojmovič, Hebraica (Leeds, 1997), no. 13(a).

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

Decoration

Drawing (penwork) of tree trunk with leaves and bird’s head.

Physical characteristics

Script: Italian Hebrew script.

Ms.: width 270mm height 397mm

Former owners and annotations

Rich annotations comprising the riddles’s solution.

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