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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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[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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[Leḥashim u-ḳemeʿot]. [לחשים וקמיעות]. [Spells and amulets].

[18th–19th century]

Title supplied by cataloguer. Possibly a damaged leaf (fragment) from greater manuscript. Variant titles: Kishuf. כישוף. קמעות. State of text: Some staining; damaged margins with l...

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[Tefilah beʿad haskamah le-matan geṭ]. [תפלה בעד הסכמה למתן גט]. [Prayer imploring that Hananiah ben Moses Daniel Bolaffi should repent and consent to divorce his wife].
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[Tefilah beʿad haskamah le-matan geṭ]. [תפלה בעד הסכמה למתן גט]. [Prayer imploring that Hananiah ben Moses Daniel Bolaffi should repent and consent to divorce his wife].

[18th-19th century]

Hebrew title supplied by cataloguer. English title supplied from Roth, "Catalogue", in Alexander Marx: Jubilee Volume, vol. 1 (New York, 1950), no.51 (iii). Incompletess of manuscript fragment: Th...

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[Ḳovets be-ḳabalah]. [קובץ בקבלה]. [Kabbalistic miscellany (bound-with codex), including the hymn Malka rama, followed by an ethical discursus, and confessions, Shimush ḥamishah ḥumshe Torah, and Ḳaṿanot for the blowing of the Shophar, written by Moses Finzi].

[17th–18th century]

Hebrew title supplied by cataloguer. English title supplied by cataloguer following mostly Roth, "Catalogue", in Alexander Marx: Jubilee Volume, vol. 1 (New York, 1950), no. 401. MS Roth 411 is a bo...

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Jacob Fano's elegy on the Marrano martyrs of Ancona in 1556, and Solomon Hazan's on the Burning of the Talmud, 1553, with verse translation in Judaeo-Italian.
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[Ḳinot]. [קינות]. [Jacob Fano's elegy on the Marrano martyrs of Ancona in 1556, and Solomon Hazan's on the burning of the Talmud, 1553].

Fano, Yaʿaḳov ben Yoʾav Eliyahu (fl 1560)

[17th–18th century]

Hebrew title supplied by cataloguer. English title supplied from Roth, “Catalogue”, in Alexander Marx: Jubilee Volume, vol. 1 (New York, 1950), no. 121. The booklet contains two lamentations in ...

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Shir [le-Furim]: Barukh Mordekhai shaḳul ke-Mosheh. שיר [לפורים]: ברוך מרדכי שקול כמשה. [Poem on Purim].

[18th–19th century]

Item is missing as of 08/10/2020. Description is based on the digitised microfilm of MS Roth 55 downloaded from NLI record 000185662, and on Davis's handlist. Hebrew title supplied from folio 1r. E...

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