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Archive Judaica File

[Shirim, ḥidot ha-tsurah, u-fiyuṭim]. [שירים, חידות הצורה, ופיוטים]. [Collection of manuscript broadsides : poems, riddles, and hymns].

[17th–19th century]

Title supplied by cataloguer. 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, mainl...

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[Tefilot u-fiyuṭim be-khitve yad ḳeṭanim shonim]. [תפלות ופיוטים בכתבי יד קטנים שונים]. [Small miscellaneous liturgical manuscripts].

[18th-19th century]

Hebrew and English titles supplied by cataloguer. Bibliographical note: Roth, “Catalogue”, in Alexander Marx: Jubilee Volume, vol. 1 (New York, 1950), no. 55. National Library of Israel (NLI),...

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[Miscellaneous items : documents, pamphlets, epithalamia, poems, letters, prayers, fragments from printed works, Łódź ghetto note receipts, and other ephemera, 18th–20th century (manuscript and print)].

[18th–20th century]

Title supplied by cataloguer. The collection of ephemera appears to have been Roth’s ‘genizah’ in which he kept damaged and miscellaneous items. MS Roth 724 comprises, among others: Press...

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[Tefilot ke-minhag Ḳaraʾim : ḳunṭresim min 3 kitve yad shonim]. [תפילות כמנהג קראים :קונטרסים מן ג׳ כתבי יד שונים]. ‎[Portions of Karaite liturgy : quires from 3 different manuscripts].

[17th–18th century]

Hebrew title supplied by cataloguer. English title derived from Roth, "Catalogue", in Alexander Marx: Jubilee Volume, vol. 1 (New York, 1950), 617, and by cataloguer. Variant titles: Maḥazor minh...

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[Tefilot le-moʿadim ke-minhag Ḳaraʾim : ḳunṭresim min 5 kitve yad shonim]. [תפילות למועדים כמנהג קראים :קונטרסים מן ה׳ כתבי יד שונים]. ‎[Portions of Karaite liturgy : quires from 5 different manuscripts].

[17th century]

Hebrew title supplied by cataloguer. English title derived from Roth, "Catalogue", in Alexander Marx: Jubilee Volume, vol. 1 (New York, 1950), 612, and by cataloguer. Maḥazor minhag ha-Ḳaraʾim ...

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[Ḳovets be-ʿArvit-Yehudit : sipur Yosef, tefilot, ṿe-khu.]. [קובץ בערבית־יהודית : ספור יוסף, תפילות, וכו׳]. [Miscellany in Judaeo-Arabic (quires and leaves from 8 different manuscripts) : story of Joseph, prayers, et cetera].

[17th–18th century]

Title supplied by cataloguer. Collection of mostly loose quires and leaves of different origin, written on different paper by at least 7 different hands: folios 1–8 (156mm x 111mm): Story of Josef...

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Marriage Contracts etc.

1880

The majority of the Marriage Contracts collected by Dr Roth were transferred to the Beth Tzedec Synagogue Museum in Toronto, Canada, but a few of them have been found still to be held in Leeds Univers...

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[Seder berit milah. Pinḳase mohel]. [סדר ברית מילה. פנקסי מוהל]. [3 registers of circumcisions at Ancona (17 circumcisions: 1810–1817, 2 circumcisions: 1870, 10 circumcisions: 1914-1915) appended to manuscript order of service and hymns for the ceremony].

[18th–19th century]

Hebrew title supplied by cataloguer. English title supplied by cataloguer following Roth, "Catalogue", in Alexander Marx: Jubilee Volume, vol. 1 (New York, 1950), no. 265. Variant titles: Piyuṭim...

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[Pizmonim le-Shabatot ule-moʿadim (Śimḥat Torah) ke-minhag Ḳots'i (ḳeṭaʿ)]. [פזמונים לשבתות ולמועדים (שמחת תורה) כמנהג קוצ׳י ‏(‏קטע‏)‏]. [Manuscript hymns and poems, rite of Cochin, including part of the service for the Rejoicing of the Law].

[18th century]

Hebrew title supplied by cataloguer. English title derived from Roth, "Catalogue", in Alexander Marx: Jubilee Volume, vol. 1 (New York, 1950), no. 37. Variant titles: Piyuṭim le-Śimḥat Torah, ...

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[Tefilot ke-minhag Ḳaraʾim : ḳeṭaʿim ṿe-ḳunṭresim min 27 kitve yad shonim]. [תפילות כמנהג קראים : קטעים וקונטרסים מן כ׳׳ז כתבי יד שונים]. ‎[Portions from Karaite liturgy : fragments and quires from 27 different manuscripts].

[17th century]

Title supplied by cataloguer. English title derived from Roth, "Catalogue", in Alexander Marx: Jubilee Volume, vol. 1 (New York, 1950), 610. Variant titles: Maḥazor minhag Ḳaraʾim (ḳeṭa...

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[Tefilot le-moʿadim ke-minhag Ḳaraʾim : ḳeṭaʾim ṿe-ḳunṭresim min 7 kitve yad shonim]. [תפילות למועדים כמנהג קראים :קטעים וקונטרסים מן ז׳ כתבי יד שונים]. ‎[Portions of Karaite liturgy for festivals : fragments and quires from 7 different manuscripts].

[16th–18th century]

Hebrew title supplied by cataloguer. English title derived from Roth, "Catalogue", in Alexander Marx: Jubilee Volume, vol. 1 (New York, 1950), 616, and by cataloguer. Variant titles: Maḥazor minh...

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[Tefilot le-moʿadim ke-minhag Ḳaraʾim : ḳeṭaʾim ṿe-ḳunṭresim min 16 kitve yad shonim]. [תפילות למועדים כמנהג קראים :קטעים וקונטרסים מן ט׳׳ז כתבי יד שונים]. ‎[Portions of Karaite liturgy : fragments and quires from 16 different manuscripts].

[17th–18th century]

Hebrew title supplied by cataloguer. English title derived from Roth, "Catalogue", in Alexander Marx: Jubilee Volume, vol. 1 (New York, 1950), 618, and by cataloguer. Variant titles: Maḥazor minh...

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