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| Collection | |
Hebrew manuscripts |
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| Stored at | |
Montefiore Endowment |
| Category | |
Manuscripts (Books and papers) |
| Hirschfield ref. | |
493 |
| Title | |
Collection Of Various Texts, Manuscript On Paper |
| Contents | |
Fols. 1r-16v: Aggadat Arba Kosot, a poem by Solomon Pappenheim (Germany, 1740-1813). Copied from the Berlin, 1809 edition.
Fols. 17r-28v: Iggeret Teman (Epistle to Yemen) by Moses ben Maimon. Translated from the Arabic by Samuel ibn Tibbon. The first edition was published in Vienna, 1874. Fols. 29r-31v: Prayer for rain, composed in Leghorn in 1755[?] Fols. 32r-43v: Milhamot ha-Shem, Abraham ben Moses ben Maimon's defense of his father's philosophical writings from the anti-Maimonideans. The first edition was published in Vilna, 1821. Fols. 45r-48v: Ephrem the Syrian's verses on learning in Hebrew transcription. Fols. 49r-59v: Collection of poems by medieval Hebrew poets such as Judah ha-Levi, Solomon ibn Gabirol and Abraham ibn Ezra and by nineteenth-century poets such as Abraham di Colonia, and [Jacob Raphael?] Saraval of Amsterdam and a poem by Elia Aaron Lattes (rabbi in Venice, d. 1839) in honour of David Joseph Sinzheim, the Chief Rabbi of France. On fols. 58r-59v: Mussar Heskel ethical poem by Hai Gaon. |
| Provenance | |
Mordecai Samuel Ghirondi - Samuel David Luzzatto - Solomon Halberstam (shelf no. 230) |
| Date | |
19th Century |
| Binding, size etc. | |
59 leaves, 166 x 121 mm, written in various script, modern foliation in pencil; several leaves reinforced along inner margin, library stamp on first leaf. Library buckram. |
| Notes | |
Hirschfeld (ms. no. 493) |
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