Ḳinah al Śorfe Anḳonah. קינה על שורפי אנקונה. [Elegy on the Martyrs of Ancona, beginning שבי אלמנה].

Hebrew title supplied from folio 1r. English title supplied from Roth, "Catalogue", in Alexander Marx: Jubilee Volume, vol. 1 (New York, 1950), no. 123.

Alternative title as it is recorded in some other manuscripts of the poem and used by Roth: Ḳinah al Śerufe Anḳonah. קינה על שרופי אנקונה.

The elegy begins: "שבי אלמנה בית אביך".

State of text: Stained, worn and somewhat mutilated at the edges.

Bibliographical note: Roth, “Catalogue”, in Alexander Marx: Jubilee Volume, vol. 1 (New York, 1950), no. 123. National Library of Israel (NLI), Online Catalogue, system-no. 000185912. The NLI’s description is based on the microfilm of MS Roth 123 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. 123.

The elegy is published in: David Kaufmann, "Les 24 martyrs d’Ancône", Revue des Etudes Juives 31 (1895): 227–30. See on another manuscript of the elegy and on the elegy's author: Hans Rosenberg, "Elégie de Mordekhaï ben Yehouda di Blanes sur les 24 martyrs d’Ancône", Revue des Etudes Juives 91 (1931): 166–68. See also: Davidson, Otsar ha-Shirah veha-Piyuṭ, vol. 4 (New York ), 207, no. *20.