[Eulogy written for Judah Löb Saraval of Venice]
[הספד על יהודה סאראוואל מוניציאה].

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Luzzatto, Simone, -1663, author, scribe.

Contributor:

Rare Judaica Acquisitions Fund.

Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

Hebrew

Subjects (All):

Saraval, Judah Löb, -1617.

Rabbis--Italy--Venice--16th century.

Rabbis.

Rabbis--Italy--Venice--17th century.

Jewish sermons, Hebrew--17th century.

Jewish sermons, Hebrew.

Manuscripts, Hebrew--Italy--Venice--17th century--Specimens.

Manuscripts, Hebrew.

Local Subjects:

Saraval, Judah Löb, -1617.

Genre:

Manuscripts, European.

Manuscripts.

Eulogies.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Winner's Auctions (Jerusalem), July 2022.

Physical Description:

1 leaf : paper ; 340 x 235 mm

Contained In:

Miscellaneous Manuscripts (Large). Box 3 Folder 24

Other Title:

text begins: ... ṿe-hineh im raʼah adam she-yesurin baʼim ʻalaṿ...

והנה אם ראית אדם שיסורין באים עליו...

Place of Publication:

[Venice, Italy], [after 17 May 1617]

[וויניציאה, איטליה], [אייר ה'שע"ז?]

Language Note:

Hebrew.

Biography/History:

Judah Löb Saraval was the rabbi of Venice and a halakhic authority for Italian Jewry; a student of Samuel Judah Katzenellenbogen in Padua, and rabbi in Venice since at least 1606; Simone Luzzatto and Leon da Modena were both rabbis of Venice at this time, though Modena's funeral dirge for Saraval has been published (in Diwan, Philadelphia 1932, number 207 on pages 210-211) Luzzato's eulogy remained as this manuscript.

Summary:

Simone (Śimḥah) Luzzato's holograph of the his elder peer in the Venetian rabbnate, containing material on the suffering of the righteous, as Saraval experienced the death of his eldest son and was impoverished, as well as his final illness.

Notes:

Ms. leaf.

Title supplied by cataloger.

Layout: Written in 63 lines, forming ten paragraphs, with each paragraph overlined.

Script: Written in an Italian cursive script.

Origin: Written in Venice, after the date of death of Judah Löb Saraval (17 May 1617; Singer, Isidore, and Ochser, Schulim, in Jewish Encyclopedia, "Saraval").

Item worn and rounded at the edges, with text loss; paper repaired.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rare Judaica Acquisitions Fund.

Cited as:

Eulogy written for Judah Löb Saraval of Venice (Misc Mss (Large) Box 3 Folder 24). Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania.

OCLC:

1534759303