https://opensiddur.org/?p=3425שִׁוִּיתִי | Shiviti by Mashiaḥ Asgari (ca. late 19th – early 20th c. Herat, Afghanistan)2011-07-12 16:50:56A digital reproduction of a Shiviti held in the Royal Library of Denmark's Simonsen Manuscripts Collection. Textthe Open Siddur ProjectAndrew MeitAndrew MeitMashiaḥ Asgarihttps://opensiddur.org/copyright-policy/Andrew Meithttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/Art & CraftShiviti19th century C.E.meditationשויתי shivitiPsalms 6757th century A.M.
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
Andrew Meit has studied and researched in various areas: the imagination, Martin Buber, Judaism, prophets and prophecy, and Ephraim Moses Lilien. In 1984, Meit earned a Bachelor of Arts in Religious Studies with minors in Mathematics and Philosophy from Stetson University. As a lifelong creative, he is a type and graphics designer focusing on Jewish art and repairing digitally damaged art.Meit is legally deaf-blind, and has several learning problems stemming from contracting congenital Rubella. He is active in the Independent Living Movement; been on several CIL boards. Throughout his life Meit has striven to turn his disabilities into well-made art that inspires and celebrates beauty and truth.Off and on for 40 years, Meit has been involved in interfaith services and study groups. He has informally lectured on Buber. He enjoys writing prayers and creating worship presentations.Although mainly self-taught in calligraphy, drawing and design, Meit formally studied at the Cleveland Art Institute. With the font editor Fontographer, he recreated the well known font GoodCity Modern (a faithful recreation of the Gutenberg’s bible typeface). Over the decades, he produced a digital recreation of the first page of Genesis from the Gutenberg Bible. He artistically colored many of E.M. Lilien’s line art illustrations, created a font based on Buber's handwriting, and recently, he created a new logo for the Florida Orange City Unitarian Universalist Congregation and improved a logo for Applied Jewish Spirituality group.Meit likes to help repair the world through his art; enjoys deep thoughts, playing with puzzles, and learning about Religion. He currently lives in Plantation, Florida.
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]…”
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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?