Letters of ordination for Menahem Azariah Meir ben Elijah Castelnuovo.
מכתבי סמיכה להרב מנחם עזריה מאיר קאסטלנובו.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Nunes Ṿais, Yaʻaḳov, author, scribe.

Padua, Menasheh, active 19th century, author, scribe.

Abulafia, Ḥayim Shelomoh, author, scribe.

Contributor:

פאדווה, מנשה.

אבולפיא, חיים שלמה.

Language:

Hebrew

Subjects (All):

Castelnuovo, Menahem Azariah Meir ben Elijah, -1847--Knowledge and learning.

Castelnuovo, Menahem Azariah Meir ben Elijah.

Rabbis--Italy--Livorno--19th century.

Rabbis.

Rabbis--Italy--Padua--19th century.

Rabbis--Italy--Siena--19th century.

Rabbis--Israel--Tiberias--19th century.

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, European.

diplomas

tuǧras

calligraphy (visual works)

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Winner's Auctions (Jerusalem), Auction 140 (22 February 2023) item 244.

Physical Description:

2 leaves : paper ; 23 x 21 cm

Production:

Livorno ; Padua, 12-21 Ḥeshvan 5573 [18-27 October 1812].

ליוורנו ; פאדובה, י"ב-כ"א חשון תקע"ג.

Other Title:

text begins : Nidrashti l'e'-l'o' sheʼeluni ʻedut bi-yaʻaḳov man de-tani ʻe'd'e'h'en' la mishtabesh el ha'-n'a'h'ar' ha-zeh ilan de-mirvev le-meḥeze mi-zeh ben mi-zeh ke.moha-r. Menaḥem Ḳaśṭilnovo ...

text begins : נדרשתי לל"ו שאלוני עדות ביעקב מאן דתני ע'ד'י'ה'ן' לא משתבש אל ה'נ'ה'ר' הזה אילן דמירבב למיחזי מזה בן מזה כמוה"ר מנחם קאשטילנובו ...

Language Note:

In Hebrew.

Summary:

Ordination conferred upon Menahem Azariah Meir ben Elijah Castelnuovo on a bifolium document, signed by Livorno rabbis Yaʻaḳov Nunes Ṿais and Menasheh Padua (f. 1r), and a visiting emissary from Tiberias, Ḥayim Shelomoh Abulafia (writing in Padua, 21 Ḥeshvan 5573 [27 October 1812]); Nunes Ṿais alludes to his studying for twelve years in Livorno ("וקושטא קאי הקו"שט שנים עשר דהאי גברא דאיתיה קמן ..."; Castelnuovo would later become rabbi in Siena, and authored works Misgeret ha-shulḥan (on ritual law) and ʻEmeḳ ha-melekh (responsa)). Yaʻaḳov Nunes Ṿais portion written in 12 lines, in a calligraphic Sephardic semicursive script, and name and opening word in a Sephardic square script; Menasheh Padua portion written in five lines, in an Italian semicursive script; Ḥayim Shelomoh Abulafia letter written in 11 lines, in a North African cursive script (with a tuǧra signature at bottom).

Notes:

Title supplied by cataloger.

Cited as:

Letters of ordination for Menahem Azariah Meir ben Elijah Castelnuovo. (UPenn CAJS Rar Ms 693). Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania.

OCLC:

1421946736