Beschreibung:

Kunteres Perek ba-Shir is a treatise on poetics that was composed at the request of Abraham ben Joseph ha-Levi, in Constantinople in 1635. It is divided into lessons, here called talmud. Fols. 21r-25r contain Jacob Roman’s list of fifty-one Hebrew meters that are similar to Arabic meters, with samples. It is headed: ketzev u-meoznei mishkal ha-shirim ha-ivriyyim le-dimyon shekel shire ha-yismeeliyyim.  Roman’s work, Meoznei Mishkal, is mentioned. At the end is a list, made by the compiler, of technical terms relating to poetry, in Hebrew, Arabic and Italian. Jacob Roman was a bibliographer and writer of Spanish descent; he was born in Constantinople ca. 1570 and died in Jerusalem in 1650.
ProvenanceSolomon Halberstam (shelf no. 119)
Physical Description25 leaves (fol. 20 blank) on paper, 8 3/8 x 6 3/8 inches; 213 x 157 mm, written in black ink in a seventeenth-eighteenth-century Sefardi cursive script, modern foliation in pencil; a few small stains, library stamp on first and last leaves. Marbled boards; somewhat worn.
LiteratureHirschfeld (ms. no. 377); a section of Benveniste’s work was published from this manuscript by N. Allony, Mi-Sifrut Yeme ha-Beinanyim, (1945), pp. 39-42