Commonplace book with rabbinic literature : manuscript.
ספר-קובץ וליקוטים.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Contributor:

Elis & Ruth Douer Endowed Fund.

Language:

Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

Hebrew

Subjects (All):

Commonplace books--Greece--19th century--Specimens.

Commonplace books.

Handbooks, vade-mecums, etc--19th century--Specimens.

Handbooks, vade-mecums, etc.

Manuscripts, Hebrew--Greece--19th century--Specimens.

Manuscripts, Hebrew.

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, European.

commonplace books

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Refa'eli Auctions (Jerusalem), 2022.

Physical Description:

131 leaves : paper ; 13 x 10 cm

Other Title:

title statement (f. 3v): Derekh limudi bi-sefarim ha-nimtsaʼim be-amtaḥotenu heʻetaḳti ezeh devarim she-nirʼu li ḥidush...

title statement (f. 3v): דרך לימודי בספרים הנמצאים באמתחותנו העתקתי איזה דברים שנראו לי חידוש...

Place of Publication:

[Greece?], [between 1850? and 1875?]

[יוון?], [1850?-1875?]

Language Note:

In Hebrew; some words in Greek (in Hebrew characters; f. 111v).

Summary:

Hebrew 19th century commonplace book, created as a vade-mecum for ethical portions of rabbinic literature (title statement on f. 3v: "דרך לימודי בספרים הנמצאים באמתחותינו העתקתי איזה דברים שנראו לי חידוש לענ"ד הגם שלכל תופסי התורה אינם חידוש ובאיזה מקומות קיצרתי..."; excerpts from (for examples) Daʻat ḳedoshim (David ben Aharon Ha-kohen; Livorno 1839; f. 4r), Reshit ḥokhmah (Elijah de Vidas; f. 36r), Tomer Devorah (Moses Cordovero), and other ethical and Aggadic works; many of the later portions (including additional paper added to the codex, comprised of all following f. 92, and all folios following 105 are blue-grey paper) are of longer quotes, and comprised of material surrounding Messianic themes. A quote in Greek in Hebrew characters (f. 111v) suggests that this item originated in Greece. Written in a Solitreo cursive script, likely at the third quarter of the 19th century. Bound in contemporary leather, with blind-tooled diamond crisscross across boards.

Notes:

Title supplied by cataloger.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Elis & Ruth Douer Endowed Fund.

Cited as:

Commonplace book with rabbinic literature (UPenn CAJS Rar Ms 733). Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania.

OCLC:

1455286066