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Sefer Tsintsenet Menaḥem.
ספר צנצנת מנחם.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection Folio BM516.5 M45 1719
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Menaḥem Mendel, a.b.d. ḳ.ḳ. Helshoya Zmigrod, author.
- Council of Four Lands, author of introduction, etc.
- Language:
- Hebrew
- Subjects (All):
- Aggada--Commentaries.
- Aggada.
- Midrash--Commentaries.
- Midrash.
- Genre:
- Commentaries.
- Penn Provenance:
- Kaplan Centre for Jewish Studies at the University of Cape Town Collection (University of Pennsylvania) (Kislak Center copy)
- Offenbach Archival Depot (Kislak Center copy)
- Pohl, Johannes (bookplate) (inscription) (Kislak Center copy)
- Mosheh ben Mikhaʼel (?), Pfersee (inscription) (Kislak Center copy)
- Zev Wolff ben Mordekhai, of Bad Nauheim (inscription) (Kislak Center copy)
- Physical Description:
- 98 leaves ; 30 cm (fol.)
- Manufacture:
- Nidpas poh ḳ.ḳ. Berlin, taḥat memshelet adonenu ha-melekh .. Fredrikh Ṿilhelm Melekh Prusya, ṿe-Ḳurfirśṭ Brandenburg yar.h. ... : nidpas bi-vet ha-adon... Natan Neymarḳ mi-Berlin..., ṿa-tehi reshit ṿe-hatḥalat ha-melʼakhah ba-R.Ḥ. Siṿan [5]479... ; va-tigmor ha-melʼakhah ba-yom 3 13 Tishre [5]480 le-f.ḳ [that is, begun on 19 May 1719, and completed on 26 September 1719]
- נדפס פה ק"ק ברלין, תחת ממשלת אדוננו המלך ... פרידריך ווילהעלם מלך פרוסיא, וקורפירשט בראנדינבורג יר"ה ... : נדפס בבית האדון... נתן ניימארק מברלין..., ותהי ראשית והתחלת המלאכה בר"ח סיון תע"ט... ; ותגמור המלאכה ביום י"ג תשרי ת"פ לפ"ק
- Other Title:
- Tsintsenet Menaḥem.
- Notes:
- Title page printed inside ornamental border.
- Reigning monarch mentioned in imprint -- Frederick William I, King of Prussia (1688-1740).
- Title page text of the letter from the Council of Four Lands (ועד ארבע ארצות) accompanying the manuscript, requesting its printing; undersigned Jarosław, Poland, 15 Heshvan 5451 (18 October 1690); "וזה הכתב שנכתב מהאלופים התורניי'...".
- Approbations: Tsevi Hirsch of Lublin-Jarosław; Moses Teomim of Kraków; Moses Harif of Lviv, and Israel Harif of Olyka; Simhah Kats of Grodno; Mordekhai Kats of Opatów, and Saul Katzenellenbogen of Pińczów.
- Author's autobiography on final leaf, verso.
- Signatures: [pi]1 [alif]1-[mem zayin]47² [mem ḥet]48⁴ (-4?).
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center copy gift of the Kaplan Centre for Jewish Studies at the University of Cape Town.
- Kislak Center copy complete. Bound in 19th century marbled paper on boards, with leather spine; faux-bands on spine.
- Kislak Center copy formerly held in the Offenbach Archival Depot (stamp inside front board: "desinf. Lk. Sept. 45").
- Kislak Center copy with bookplate handwritten by Johannes Pohl ("MENACHEM MENDEL BEN ZVI HIRSCH | "ZINZENET MENACHEM" | au. AGADOT HA'TALMUD auch al HA'TORA | Berlin 1719").
- Kislak Center copy with censorship and municipal iron stamps (Cyrillic stamp, Polish stamp; title page).
- Kislak Center copy formerly owned by Mosheh ben Mikhaʼel (?), Pfersee (Augsburg, Germany; inscription: "שייך לר' משה ז"ל בן מיכאל? פפרשא").
- Kislak Center copy formerly owned by Zev Wolff ben Mordekhai of [Bad] Nauheim, Germany, purchased for 4 Reichsthaler in Berlin (inscription, title page: "קניתי בבר' בעד ארבעה רש"ט ... נאם הקטן זאב וואלף בהר"ר מרדכי יצ"ו מק"ק ניוהיים").
- OCLC:
- 122777859
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