Biographical works, novellae, and critical notes.
חיבורים ביוגרפיים וחידושים עם הערות ביקורתיות.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Epstein, Leṿi Yitsḥaḳ, author, scribe.

Contributor:

ראפאפארט, יהודה ליב, 1790-1867.

Language:

Hebrew

Subjects (All):

Nissim ben Jacob ben Nissim ibn Shahin, active 11th century--Biography.

Nissim ben Jacob ben Nissim ibn Shahin.

Naḥmanides, approximately 1195-approximately 1270--Biography.

Naḥmanides.

Meir, active 2nd century.

Meir.

Talmud--19th century--Commentaries.

Talmud.

Miracles in rabbinical literature.

Jews--Lithuania--Vilnius--19th century--History--Sources.

Jews.

Genre:

Manuscripts, European.

Manuscripts, Hebrew -- 19th century.

codices (bound manuscripts)

manuscripts for publication.

biographies (literary genre)

Codices (bound manuscripts)

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning.

Physical Description:

vi, 122 leaves : paper ; 190 x 110 mm bound to 195 x 115 mm.

Production:

[Vilnius?], [1875?-1899?].

[ווילנא], [1875-1899].

Language Note:

In Hebrew.

Biography/History:

Author's acronym on opening pages ("יד ה' ע'ל'י' לטובה", from opening page to the biography of Naḥmanides (f. 47r) lists the author's genealogy from Judah Loew ben Bezalel of Prague, and states that his great-grandfather was the chief dayan of Vilnius ("מהור"ר ישראל מץ וראב"ד דק"ק ווילנא"); likely surname was Epstein, spelled עפשטיין in Eastern Europe.

Summary:

This is a manuscript for publication of critical notes dealing with history and Talmudical aspects; the first part of the manuscript is a transcription of Solomon Judah Leib Rapoport's biography and footnotes written about Nissim ben Jacob ben Nissim ibn Shahin (printed in Bikure ha-ʻitim 12 (Vienna: Anton Edl. von Schmid, 1831, l. 56 passim), with additional glosses; the writer integrated his glosses into the footnotes from the original text (yet copied the text of the biography in square script, and the footnotes and additional glosses in an Eastern European Hebrew cursive script; f. 1r-50v). The next section is an unfinished biography of Naḥmanides (abruptly finishing on f. 48v), and a section on Meʼir Baʻal ha-Nes (2nd century) and miraculous occurances in the Babylonian and Jerusalem Talmuds and the Midrashic literature (ending at f. 76r); more notes on passages in the Talmud (ending at f. 80r); the remainder of the manuscript are notes on historical episodes in the Talmudic literature (ending on f. 102v). There are numerous quotes and sayings from Elijah ben Solomon of Vilna (the Vilna Ga'on) and a quote from Hayyim Joseph David Azulai (f. 59v) and the book Toledot adam (on Shelomoh Zalman mi-Ṿilna; 1756-1785; ibidem).

Notes:

Title supplied by cataloger; romanization supplied by cataloger.

Item bound in a loose green cloth binding; book block loose; many pages brittle and chipped.

Item bound with: Nissim ben Jacob ben Nissim ibn Shahin, attribuited name. Zeh Sefer Maʻaśiyot : ṿe-hu Ḥibur yafeh meha-yeshuʻah (Warsaw: D.L. Sklower, 1837); see the print record.

Item bound with: Maimonides, Moses. Igeret Teman ha-niḳreʼet Petaḥ Tiḳṿah (Warsaw: D.L. Sklower, 1837); see the print record.

Cited as:

Biographical works, novellae, and critical notes. (UPenn CAJS Rar Ms 653). Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania.

Contains:

Rapoport, Solomon Judah Leib, 1790-1867. Toledot Rabenu Nisim bar Yaʻaḳov ṿe-ḳorot sefaraṿ.

ראפאפארט, יהודה ליב, 1790-1867. תולדות רבנו נסים בר יעקב וקורות ספריו.

OCLC:

1400075364

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