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| Subject | Count |
|---|---|
| manuscripts, hebrew -- 18th century -- texts. | 76 |
| judaism -- liturgy -- texts. | 62 |
| cecil roth collection -- insertions -- research notes. | 40 |
| manuscripts, hebrew -- 19th century -- texts. | 23 |
| piyutim -- texts. | 22 |
| hebrew poetry -- texts. | 19 |
| manuscripts, hebrew -- 17th century -- texts. | 18 |
| hebrew poetry -- italy -- texts. | 17 |
| illustrated works (manuscripts). | 17 |
| epithalamia. | 15 |
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Cecil Roth Collection
1200-1999
Throughout his life Cecil Roth (1899-1970) collected books, manuscripts, and art objects. The books and manuscripts of scholarly interest, and modern books, were acquired by Leeds University Library t...
[ Miscellaneous collection of פזמונים (pizmonim) and other texts written in several different hands (notebook)]
[19th century?]
Title supplied by cataloguer. The text is written from both ends of the volume in several hands. Some folios contain hymns and poems in Hebrew and Judeo-Arabic written in a professional manner in b...
Ḥiluf pesuḳe sefer ha-Torah. חלוף פסוקי ספר התורה. [Systematic collection of misleadingly similar verses of the Pentateuch].
[19th century]
Hebrew title supplied from heading on folio 2r. English title derived from Roth, "Catalogue", in Alexander Marx: Jubilee Volume, vol. 1 (New York, 1950), no. 519. Variant titles: Ḥiluf pesuḳe h...
[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...
[Dapim u-ḳeṭaʿim mi-kitve yad shonim]. [דפים וקטעים מכתבי יד שונים]. [Miscellaneous collection of liturgical fragments].
Ibn Ezra, Abraham ben Meïr (1092-1167); Piperno, Abram Benedetto (1863)
[13th–19th century]
Hebrew title supplied by cataloguer. English title derived from Roth, "Catalogue", in Alexander Marx: Jubilee Volume, vol. 1 (New York, 1950), no. 70. Summary Contains 29 separate fragments (1 leat...
[Ḳovets be-kabalah Luriʾanit u-segulot]. [קובץ קבלה לוריאנית וסגולות]. [Kabbalistic miscellany : collection of Lurianic kabbalah and practical magic].
[17th–18th century]
Hebrew title supplied by cataloguer. English title derived from Roth, "Catalogue", in Alexander Marx: Jubilee Volume, vol. 1 (New York, 1950), no. 404. Summary: Composite codex with of 3 works of L...
[Collection of papers and letters pertaining to Cecil Roth's research on Jacob ben Rabbi Samuel, including photostats of two original petitions: 1662, to Charles II, and, approximately 1663–1666, to the Bishop of Chichester].
1931–1954
Title supplied by cataloguer. According to Roth's research notes, the original of Jacob ben Samuel's petition to Charles II is held by The National Archives (formerly the Public Record Office), P.R....
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...
[Piyuṭim u-fizmonim le-hizdamnuyot shonot / me-et paiṭanim mi-Tsefon Afriḳah]. [פיוטים ופזמונים להזדמנויות שונות / מאת פייטנים מצפון אפריקה]. [Collection of 521 hymns and poems, North African (probably Moroccan)].
Najara, Israel ben Moses (1555?-1625?)
[18th–19th century]
[Piyuṭim ṿe-shirim be-ʿIvrit, be-Yaṿanit, uvi-leshonot aḥerot, ke-minhag Ḳorfu(?)]. [פיוטים ושירים בעברית, ביונית ובלשונות אחרות, כמנהג קורפו?]. [Collection of hymns and poems in Hebrew, Judaeo-Greek, and other languages].
Espinosa, Binyamin ben Yaʻaḳov; Solomon ben Mazzal Tov (1480-1550); Najara, Israel ben Moses (1555?-1625?)
[18th–19th century]
Title supplied by cataloguer. Place of production: "Presumably from Corfu" (קורפו, Kerkyra) according to Roth, "Catalogue", in Alexander Marx: Jubilee Volume, vol. 1 (New York, 1950), no. 46. ...
[Scroll of Ezekiel].
[18th century]
MS Roth 702 is missing as of 2005. The scroll did probably not come to Leeds University Library to begin with; it could be either in the Beth Tzedec and Helene Dennis Museum in Toronto which houses Ro...