[Salutations and obeisances from correspondence to David Berlin].
[מחמאות ומליצות ממכתב אל דוד בערלין].

Format:

Manuscript

Contributor:

Berlin, David ben Loeb, -1771, addressee.

Lamm, Louis, 1871-1943, former owner.

בערלין, דוד בן ליב. -1771, addressee.

Language:

Hebrew

Subjects (All):

Jews.

History.

Rabbis.

Germany--Hamburg.

Letters--18th century--Specimens.

Rabbis--Germany--Hamburg--18th century--Correspondence.

Jews--Germany--Hamburg--18th century--History--Sources.

Genre:

Sources.

Correspondence.

Manuscripts, European.

Manuscripts, Hebrew -- 18th century.

correspondence artifacts

fragments (object portions)

Personal correspondence.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Winner's Auctions (Jerusalem), Auction 121 (May 5, 2020) lot 423 as part of the archive of David ben Loeb Berlin (-1771).

Physical Description:

1 leaf : paper ; 63 x 100 (45 x 85) mm

Contained In:

Berlin, David ben Loeb, -1771. David ben Loeb Berlin correspondence.

Place of Publication:

Altona, [between 1768 and 1771]

אלטונא, [בין תקכ"ח-תקל"א]

Language Note:

Hebrew.

Summary:

This is a fragment of a portion of a letter written to David Berlin (cut off beyond the lines of salutation prose); this item may have been separated by Berlin so as to prepare the letter text for publication or dissemination (Berlin likely wished to edit these lines from being released as they consist only of prose). Another example of such a fragment (separated only for letter prose) is UPenn CAJS Rar Ms 559f.

Notes:

Ms. fragment.

Title supplied by cataloger.

Layout: Written in six lines, with one additional line continuation below text.

Script: Written in a Ashkenazic cursive script.

Origin: Written likely in Altona, then Denmark (today part of Hamburg, Germany).

Item mounted on blue paper.

Cited as:

UPenn CAJS Rar Ms 559g.

OCLC:

1325725283