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.

1 volume (13 ff.); 130 x 110mm; 15-16 lines to a page; paper. Hebrew and Judaeo-Italian; standard Tiberian, uncantillated; with poetic spacing. Worn and mutilated with a few small pieces of text rubbed illegible. Bound in a flimsy grey paper cover on which are written many jottings, partly in Italian. The Tetragrammaton is abbreviated. Inserted into the manuscript are three sheets of paper on which Dr Roth has transcribed parts of the poems into Italian. Held in an envelope within Box A.