[Bet-Din document]
[תעודת בית-דין]

Format:

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Ḥayyim ben Abraham, ha-Kohen, approximately 1585-1655, author.

Contributor:

Elis & Ruth Douer Endowed Fund.

Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

Hebrew

Subjects (All):

Ḥoshen mishpaṭ.

Court records--17th century.

Court records.

Jewish courts--Syria--Aleppo--17th century.

Jewish courts.

Rabbis--Syria--Aleppo--17th century.

Rabbis.

Genre:

Manuscripts, Hebrew -- 17th century.

holographs (autographs)

Penn Provenance:

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

Physical Description:

1 leaf : paper ; 200 x 150 (30 x 70) mm

Contained In:

Miscellaneous Manuscripts. Box 26 Folder 44

Other Title:

text begins: Be-fanenu [he-ʻid?] mo.ha.r. S.Ṭ. [= Siman Ṭov] Mizraḥi she-ḳibel me-r. Avraham Berakhah 20 Liraʼo[t]...

בפניני [העיד?] מו"ה ס"ט מזרחי שקבל מ"ר אברהם ברכה ך' ליראו'...

Place of Publication:

Ar[am] Ts[ovah] [Aleppo, Syria], [?], [5]399 [1638-1639]

אר"ץ [ארם צובה], [?] שנת י'ש'פ'ט'

Language Note:

Hebrew.

Biography/History:

Hayyim ben Abraham of Aleppo was a cabalist and rabbi, born in Egypt to a family of generations of Cohanim; he was a student of Hayyim ben Joseph Vital in Safed, and served in the Aleppo rabbinate until approximately 1645, when he relocated to Venice, where he died; he was the author of numerous Halakhic works (such as Ṭur odem, Ṭur baraket, and Mekor Ḥayim) and commentaries on books of the Bible, as well as piyutim (well-known is his Dodi yarad le-gano which was later added to Tikun Hazot by Nathan Neta Hannover, who met him in Venice).

Summary:

Four lines of Bet din financial (Ḥoshen mishpaṭ) record written in the hand of the cabalist and halakhist Hayyim ben Abraham of Aleppo.

Notes:

Ms. leaf.

Ḥayyim ben Abraham's handwriting survives in many examples, and this manuscript matches with the script in The National Library of Israel, Ms. Heb. 8°1581.

Title supplied by cataloger.

Layout: Written in one paragraph of 4 lines.

Script: Written in a Sephardic semicursive script in the hand of Hayyim ben Abraham of Aleppo.

Origin: Written in Aleppo in the Hebrew year 5399 [1638 or 1639] - chronogram on final line: "... יש'פ'ט'". A later inscription on verso, likely in the hand of the Bet din archivist "אר"צובא יע"א. מדמשק ופגין ... הכהן הגדול מאחיו האח האח, החכם השלם כמוה"ר חיים הכהן נר"ו" (נר"ו signifies that the preceding name is still living).

Local Notes:

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

Cited as:

Bet-din document (Misc Mss Box 26 Folder 44). Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania.

OCLC:

1535521789