Fun with piyutim – Iti Milvanon, 2/4

[hatam_soferet]

Part 1

Since this is a poem for Shabbat Nachamu, a poem which references the first verse of the haftara we say that day, I wanted to have that haftara in the border. It’s Isaiah chapter 40:2 ff and a bit of 41; it starts in the top right-hand corner.

There are a couple of scribal errors in the haftara part (click here for closeup of entire thing). It’s hard copying a text you’re not totally familiar with into a pattern, when your attention is largely focused on getting the pattern right. I could have avoided that by writing it all out in pencil first, but…well, I just didn’t want to bother, and I paid the price!

Mirrored from hasoferet.com.

Comments

[furtivepatach]

Putting scribal errors in Isaiah is really just being true to tradition.

[hatam_soferet]

*fnerk*