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Judeo-German Isaiah and Be'ur, 1817.
יהודית-גרמנית ספר ישעיה עם באור
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- Format:
- Book
- Manuscript
- Standardized Title:
- Bible. Isaiah. Judeo-German.
- תנ"ך. ישעיה. יהודית-גרמנית.
- Language:
- German
- Hebrew
- Latin
- Subjects (All):
- Bible. Isaiah.
- Haskalah.
- Jewish religious education.
- Czech Republic--Prague.
- Bible. Isaiah--Commentaries--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Jewish.
- Bible.
- Jewish religious education--Czech Republic--Prague--19th century.
- Haskalah--19th century.
- Genre:
- Commentaries.
- Codices (bound manuscripts)
- Translations (documents)
- Manuscripts for publication.
- Penn Provenance:
- Formerly owned by Mosheh Ḥanokh Ha-levi (gold stamp in Hebrew, front board).
- Sold at Kestenbaum & Company, Auction 44 (June 25, 2009) lot 294.
- Sold by Virtual Judaica (February 2021).
- Physical Description:
- 1 item (136 leaves) : paper ; 190 x 115 mm bound to 190 x 130 mm
- Place of Publication:
- 1817.
- Language Note:
- In Judeo-German (Oborniḳ translation from the Hebrew original); Josefsohn introduction and commentary in Hebrew; Fischer inscriptions in Latin (f. 85v, 136r).
- Biography/History:
- Josefsohn (died 1835?), Prague-based Hebrew literary scholar active in the Haskalah; apparently his only published item the posthumous Fegfeuer's sieben Abtheilungen, שבעה מדורי גיהנם (Odessa: M. Belinsohn, 1870).
- Summary:
- This is a manuscript for publication of Heinrich Josefsohn's commentary to Isaiah accompanying Meʼir Oborniḳ's Judeo-German translation; Josefsohn cites the reason he wrote the commentary was to supplant David Friedländer's commentary (which he felt was inferior); he wished to continue in the Be'ur style begun by Moses Mendelssohn and continued by the Biurists and Me'assfim (f. 2r). Verses are followed by commentary, each divided by chapter; censor-scholar Carolus (Karel) Fischer inscribed the volume twice (first following XXXIX (f. 85v) and following the final chapter (f. 136r), possibly indicating the volume was to be printed in two volumes). Written in an Ashkenazic cursive script of the 19th century; chapter headings and accent words written in an Ashkenazic square script; various Judeo-German vocalizations on certain accents; corrections and word additions in a different hand (possibly the hand of Moses Israel Landau (1788-1852), Prague editor, printer, and educator, peer of Fischer and printer of most Be'urs following Mendelssohn's); item originated likely in Prague (Fischer inscriptions).
- Notes:
- Item bound in contemporary binding (crushed Morocco with gilt tooling, florets on boards and spine); binding separated, endpapers torn; opening folios loose.
- Cited as:
- UPenn CAJS Rar Ms 537.
- OCLC:
- 1302642258
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