[Lecture notes and sources].
[מכתבים ומקורי מעשיות].

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Contributor:

Karp, Abraham J., former owner.

Abraham J. and Deborah Karp Collection of Judaica (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

Hebrew

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Reuveni, David, active 16th century.

Molkho, Shlomo, approximately 1500-1532.

Jews.

History.

Printing, Hebrew.

Rabbinical literature.

Midrash.

Aggada.

Turkey.

Italy--Sabbioneta.

Molkho, Shlomo, approximately 1500-1532--Legends.

Molkho, Shlomo.

Reuveni, David, active 16th century--Legends.

Reuveni, David.

Aggada--Sources.

Midrash--Sources.

Rabbinical literature--Sources.

Printing, Hebrew--Italy--Sabbioneta--Sources.

Jews--Turkey--History--Sources.

Genre:

Sources.

Legends.

Manuscripts, European.

Lecture notes.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly in the collection of Rabbi Dr. Abraham J. Karp.

Physical Description:

3 leaves : paper ; 142 x 100 mm

Place of Publication:

[Turkey?], [between 1650 and 1750]

[טורקיה?], [בין 1650-1699]

Language Note:

Hebrew; numbers written out in Spanish (f. 3r).

Summary:

This is a manuscript of unsewn leaves, written so the scribe (who was likely a preacher) should recall or consult the cited stories mentioned in rabbinic literature (likely for instruction); the style is that a brief mention of what occurs in the story is listed, followed by the source. Ancient sources include the Babylonian Talmud and midrashic literature in Midrash rabbah and Yalkut Shimoni; medieval sources include Josippon, Midrash Sefer ha-yashar, and Yuḥasin; contemporary sources include the story of Shlomo Molkho (1500?-1532) and David Reuveni (f. 2r); the founding of the Hebrew printing press in Sabbioneta (f. 2r). Final folio inscribed in a different hand (possibly earlier) with a brief text expounding the word halakhah (הלכה), likely to use for an introduction to a discourse; numbers written out in Spanish below (f. 3r).

Notes:

Ms. leaves.

Title supplied by cataloger.

Foliation: Paper, 3; modern foliation in pencil, lower left recto, 1-3.

Layout: Written in 26-30 lines (f.1r-v) and 18 lines (f. 2r).

Script: Written in a Sephardic cursive script in various hands.

Decoration: Pen tests and large letters (f. 2v).

Origin: Written likely in Turkey for the use of a preacher during the later 17th century or the early 18th century.

Cited as:

UPenn Karp BII.42.

OCLC:

1285429131

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