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Digital restoration by Andrew Meit of a Shiviti by Mashiaḥ Asgari held in The Royal Library of Denmark David Simonsen Manuscripts Collection (CC0)
We are grateful to Andrew Meit for restoring a Shiviti, originally prepared by Mashiaḥ Asgari, currently held in the Royal Library of Denmark’s Simonsen Manuscripts Collection. The image was slightly adjusted by Aharon Varady. All files including the vector art are shared with a Creative Commons Zero (CC0) Public Domain dedication.
For more information on this particular Shiviti, please visit the Royal Library of Denmark’s collection. We need your help in identifying all the verses, divine names, and allusions to numinous powers in this Shiviti. Please provide more information in the comments below.
For more information on Shiviti art, please read this post by Shmueli Gonzales. To see more Shiviti art shared by the Open Siddur Project, click here.
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Shiviti by Mashiaḥ Asgari held in The Royal Library of Denmark David Simonsen Manuscripts Collection
“שִׁוִּיתִי | Shiviti by Mashiaḥ Asgari (ca. late 19th – early 20th c. Herat, Afghanistan)” is shared through the Open Siddur Project with a Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication 1.0 Universal license.
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I’ve known of this wonderful piece for several years, but upon examining it closer recently I realized that the artist actually gave his name and location in a colophon at the bottom! This information is not listed in the online cataloguing data from the Koniglige Bibliothek (I’ve written them to ask to add it) but I thought you’d like to know:
“The writer is the young singer, Mashiah Asgari, the small, dust beneath the feet of // the sages, resident of Herat, Afghanistan, [indecipherable]…”
Interestingly, another shiviti by the same scribe was sold by Kedem Auctions in 2013 for $738, see here: https://www.kedem-auctions.com/he/node/9853
Can someone provide the text of the Shiviti?