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Title

Liturgical booklet

Authors

• Shabtai ben Solomon ?Beleli

Other related names

• Gaster, Moses 1856-1939, former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/12428346)

Call number

Gaster Hebrew MS 1635
(Manchester, United Kingdom, University of Manchester, University of Manchester Library, Hebrew Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• Former: Gaster 1635

Publisher

University of Manchester Library

Language

Hebrew; Samaritan Aramaic

Origin

Place

Corfu, Greece

Summary

Liturgical booklet for a hazzan (prayer leader) with prayer, liturgical poetry and other texts relating to Shavu'ot according to the rite of Corfu. Shabtai Solomon ?Beleli produced the copy consisting of two parts (possibly for himself) in 1829. The first part contains the prayers, liturgical poems and instructions in Hebrew relating to the Shabbat before or on Shavu'ot and to the second evening of the same festival. The second part contains more such texts. The liturgical poems on folios 39a-b and 45a-46a might be in Judeo-Greek (folio 39 only partially) or otherwise in Ladino. Moses Gaster thought the hymn on folio 39a to be in Hebrew and Greek and the one on folio 45a in Hebrew, Greek and Italian. The scribe spells his family name in three different ways: title page ביללי, folio 40a בלילי and folio 50a בילילי.

Notes

• The first poem on folios 45a-46a seems to be in a mixture of Hebrew and Judeo-Greek. There are three Yehi Ratson poems starting with יהי רצון מלפניך י' אלהינו ואלהי אבותינו (e.g. 49a: Davidson 738 מ). Folios 48a-b and 49b contain sayings of Rabbi Meir, Rava and Ben Ha Ha quoted from Berakhot 17a. Mishnah Avot 5.22-3 is quoted on folio 50a. Interlinear correction on 49b.
   
• Text block detached from binding.
   

Extent

Ii+50+i; 125 x 92 mm

Foliation

Folio 1A (title page) not foliated. Folio 1a-44b Hebrew foliation at the top outer corner of side a of each folio from 1 [א] to 44 [מד]. Folios 45a-50b modern Hebrew pencil foliation at the top outer corner of side a of each folio, from 45 [מה] to 50 [נ].

Collation

Folio 1A: 1 folio; folio 1a-44b: 11II; folios 45-50: 1II (48) + 1I (50)

Support

Paper

Catchwords

Folios 1a-44b: Catchwords on bottom left corner of each page. One or two catchwords do not match up with the word on the next page.

Binding

Brown leather binding with blind tooling decoration on the margins, sewn on three raised cords. Blue ink flower on front and back paste-downs.

Layout

Long line with between 11 and 13 written lines on folios 45a-50a. Lead pencil ruling. Long line with 16 written lines on folios 1a-44b. Lead pencil ruling with pricking on both margins.

Decoration

Front and back paste-downs: Large printed flowers with leaves and stems in light and dark blue.

Script

Square script

The rubrics are in semi-cursive script.

Colophon

Title page reading in Hebrew: "חזניה של שבועת / קורפו /שבתי ב׳ שלמה ביללי / ראש חדש ניסן בשנת התקפ"ט ". Folio 40a: "שבתי ב'' שלמה בלילי / יצ''ו אכי''ר". Folio 50a: note reading in Hebrew: "שבתי ב' שלמה בלילי".

Provenance

• Acquired by The John Rylands Library from the heirs of Moses Gaster in 1954. Front flyleaf 1a: number 1635 handwritten with blue crayon. Folio 1a: Handwritten note in ink reading "1635 M. Gaster". Folio 50a: Handwritten note in pencil reading "50 fols. MG". Back Flyleaf 1b: Handwritten note in Latin "[…] Osma, Raffael Raffael Osma".
   

Related resources

• Israel Davidson, Thesaurus of mediaeval Hebrew poetry (New York, 1924-1933). (http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/466181624)

Genres

• Judaism--Liturgy--Texts
• Prayer
• Mishnah
• Talmud
• Piyutim
• Mishnah. Avot

Keywords

• Liturgy
• Jewish
• Greece
• 19th century

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Table of contents

• Flyleaf 2a — Gaster Hebrew MS 1635/1. Title page [f. 1a]
• Flyleaf 2a — Gaster Hebrew MS 1635/3. Seder Shabbat ha-gadol shel Shavu'ot (Prayer book for the Great Shabbat of Shavu'ot) [ff. 1a-44b]. Prayers, liturgical poems and other texts relating to the Shabbat before or on Shavu'ot and to the second evening of the same festival. With partial Tiberian vocalisation. Marginal notes and/or corrections on folios 8b and 15b in different hands.
• 44a — Gaster Hebrew MS 1635/2. Piyyut le-Shavu'ot [Poetry for Shavu'ot] [ff. 45a-50a].

Decorations

• Flyleaf 1a — Crudely sketched motif drawings in pencil.
• Flyleaf 1b — Handwritten note in Latin "[…] Osma, Raffael Raffael Osma".
• Flyleaf 2a — The text is surrounded by a frame. The top and bottom of the frame consist of black and blank bands, the right and left side have a carteled line. The upper three words of the title pages are each encircled.
• 16a — An ink decorative band marking a passage of the text.
• 17a — A wavy line at the bottom of the page.
• 17b — The Decalogue is written inside a gate shaped frame. The inside of the frame has a wavy line.
• 18a — The Decalogue is written inside a gate shaped frame. The inside of the frame has a wavy line.
• 23b — The margins have crude pencil doodles.
• 24a — The margins have crude pencil doodles.
• 40a — In the middle of the page a small triangle made of small ink wavy lines.
• 46a — An ink band with cartels and dots.
• 46b — Gate design border with carteled line and dots in the pillars, and leaf-shaped motifs in the portal.
• 47a — Gate design border with carteled line and dots in the pillars, and leaf-shaped motifs in the portal.
• 47b — Gate design border with leaf-shaped motifs in the pillars and a carteled line with dots in the portal.
• 48a — Gate design border with leaf-shaped motifs in the pillars and a carteled line with dots in the portal.
• 48b — Gate design border with wavy lines with small circles in the pillars and circles with dots in the portal.
• 49a — Gate design border with wavy lines with small circles in the pillars and circles with dots in the portal.
• 49b — Gate design border with lozenges and cartels with dots in the pillars and rectangles with dots in the portal.
• 50a — Gate design border with lozenges and cartels with dots in the pillars and rectangles with dots in the portal.
• 50b — Crudely sketched motif drawings in pencil.
• Flyleaf 1a — Crudely sketched motif drawings in pencil.
• Flyleaf 1b — Handwritten note in Latin "[…] Osma, Raffael Raffael Osma".