[Piyutim le-Śimḥat Torah]. [פיוטים לשמחת תורה]. [Simhat Torah Hymns, Urbino].

English title supplied from Roth, "Catalogue", in Alexander Marx: Jubilee Volume, vol. 1 (New York, 1950), no.55 (i).

The three sheets contain seven hymns for Simḥat Torah. According to Roth they were sung and/or written in the community of Urbino. Some of them are not contained in Davidson, Otsar ha-Shirah, 4 vol. (New York 1924–37).

The hyms are numbered in calligraphic cursive writing as "No.1" to "No. 7."

State of Text: Very thin worn paper with stains; brittle; all three sheets have a hole with some loss of text.

Bibliographical note: Roth, “Catalogue”, in Alexander Marx: Jubilee Volume, vol. 1 (New York, 1950), no.55 (i). National Library of Israel (NLI), Online Catalogue, system-no. 000185658. The NLI’s description is based on the microfilm of Ms Roth 55 made on behalf of the Institute of Microfilmed Hebrew Manuscripts of the NLI during the 1960s. The microfilm can now be downloaded in a digitised form from the NLI-webpage. Davis, Handlist 164 (Leeds, 2005), no. 55 (i).