B - Annotated Corpus of Dedicatory Inscriptions

Summary

WRAPPER, ROME, 1592/3

(see fig. 49; Appendix C1, no. 1)

Donated to the holy congregation Yirei Hashem1 and consecrated to God by Gamila, wife of the distinguished and honourable Isaac Capuano,2 in the year ‘The Lord also bestows His bounty; our land yields its produce’.

WRAPPER, ROME, 1602/3

(see Appendix C1, no. 10)

Donated to the holy congregation of Castilians and Frenchmen and consecrated to God by Luna, daughter of the righteous Raphael Beses of blessed memory, widow of the righteous Ephraim Corcos of blessed memory, in expiation of his soul, in the year 5363.

WRAPPER, ROME, 1603

(see Appendix C1, no. 9)

Donated to the holy congregation Yirei Hashem, may the Rock protect it, and consecrated to God, by Prudencia, wife of the honourable Tsemah Raphael of Tivoli, may the Rock protect him, in the year 5363 at the weekly portion2 ‘to win acceptance for them before the Lord’.

WRAPPER, ROME, 1621

(see fig. 31; Appendix C1, no. 13)

‘This is the Torah that Moses set before the Israelites’.^a Donated by Laura, most blessed of women,b daughter of the honourable Shem Tov Sestier of blessed memory, and consecrated to God in the year ‘Save, O Lord, your people’ on the day of the giving of the Torah, at the weekly portion ‘I will come to you and bless you’.^c

WRAPPER, ROME, 1629/30

(see Appendix C2, no. 1)

[Presented by] the honourable Shabetai Tsadik and his brother [brothers?], may the Rock protect them, son[s] of the honourable Samuel Tsadik of blessed memory, to honour God from their wealth, in the year ‘the mouth of the righteous utters wisdom’.

WRAPPER, ROME, 1650/1

(see Appendix C1, no. 14)

[Donated] in honour of God by Ora, daughter of the honourable Abraham Ashkenazi of blessed memory, wife of the honourable Haim Natronai of blessed memory, whose heart stirred her to honour God from her wealth in the year ‘with me from Lebanon’.