Rich decorations, mostly in blue and red ink. Title page with two coats of arms. Incl. Haggada (fol. 166a ff) with several (wine) stains. The binding and the gilt edges with toolings included in the digitization., The manuscript was presented to David Simonsen on June 8th, 1891, by Philip W. Heyman (1837-1893), who had aqcuired it in Bellagio, Italy (see pencilled note in David Simonsen's hand on the inside of the binding)., Maḥzor for the whole year, according to the Italian rite; written for a woman, Italian Hebrew square and cursive scripts, and Allony & Kupfer 1964, # 148; IJA 5, # 187-196.
For technical reasons, the digital facsimile opens with a blank page., Sermons and eulogies, Hebrew square and cursive script, Smaller parts in German cursive, and Allony & Kupfer 1964, # 248
Date on fol. 21b. Four fols. missing at the beginning of the volume., Holiday prayers, Italian Hebrew cursive script, and Allony & Kupfer 1964, # 192
Partly in Judeo-Persian. Binding at top ("flip chart-style")., Religious poems for use at a circumcision, Persian Rabbinic Hebrew script, and Allony & Kupfer
Description partly based on Trautner-Kromann, 1981. For further bibliographical data and references, see Trautner-Kromann,1981, and the IMHM record., Letter to the Jews of Rome, attributed to Joḥanan ben Zakkai, with a commentary, German Hebrew cursive script, and Allony & Kupfer 1964, # 171 Trautner-Kromann, Hanne: "Et hebraisk skrift mod kristendommen fra år 53? En undersøgelse af Cod. Sim. Hebr. nr. 93". Fund & Forskning, vol. 25, 1981, pp. 7-18. "The Enigmatic Iggeret Rabbi Johanan ben Zakkai: A Polemical Letter against Christianity". Proceedings of the Eleventh World Congress of Jewish Studies. Division B, Volume 1. Jerusalem 1994, pp. 69-75.
Groom: Tuvya ben Simḥa ha-Levi (טוביה בן שמחה הלוי), Bride: Rekhil bat Yitsḥaq (רעכיל בת יצחק), Ketubah (marriage contract), Hebrew square script, and Signatures in cursive Hebrew script
Groom: Ḥayim ben Yisrael (חיים בן ישראל), Bride: Tsipor bat Reuven (צפור בת ראובן), Ketubah (marriage contract), Hebrew square script, and Signtures in Hebrew cursive script
For details on contents, please cf. Allony & Kupfer 1964, or the IMHM database., Written in various hands., Italian responsa, Italian Hebrew cursive script, Italian Latin cursive script, and Allony & Kupfer 1964, # 112
For details on the origin of different parts of the MS, see IMHM record., Incantations and amulets, German Hebrew cursive script, Partly in Yiddish cursive script, and Allony & Kupfer 1964, # 143
Includes a short quote from â€La religion†by Louis Racine on the inner front cover. May also contain texts by Eljakim Soldin (see Cod. Sim. Heb. Add. 2)., Theological and philosophical texts, and Hebrew cursive script
For a detailed description of the contents, see the IMHM record., Responsa and Halakhic decisions by Italian rabbis, Hebrew and cursive script, and Allony & Kupfer 1964, # 242
For technical reasons, the digital facsimile opens with a blank page., Sermons and commentaries on the Talmud (Pesaḥim), Hebrew square and cursive script, and Allony & Kupfer 1964, # 250
Incl. note (on paper) by David Simonsen, outlining the names and dates:, 1. Salomon Davidsen & Hanne Levy, 1848-03-27;, 2. Elvy Davidsen & Lea Augsburg, 1848-09-20;, 3. Ph. G. Philipsen & Thora Levy, 1848-11-14;, 4. Israel Heyman Levy & K. Davidsen, 1834-08-21, Ketubot (marriage contracts), Hebrew square script, Danish cursive, and Allony & Kupfer 1964, # 96-99
Incomplete (substantial text losses to some folia). Title given in later hand., Book of remedies, Oriental Hebrew cursive script, and Alony & Kupfer 1964, # 209
Defect (beginning and end is missing, as well as one fol. between fol. 71 and 72), Commentary on Avot 'The story of Josef', and Allony & Kupfer 1964, #210
For a detailed description of the contents, see the IMHM record., Responsa and Halakhic decisions by Italian rabbis, Hebrew square and cursive script, Minor parts in Italian, mainly cursive, and Allony & Kupfer 1964, # 243
Fol. [78a-80a] digitized but not foliated; fol. [80b-91a] blank and not digitized., Abbreviated Yiddish translation of Avraham ben Yehuda Farissol's commentary on the Book of Job., German Hebrew cursive script, and Allony & Kupfer 196, # 107