[Latin and German translation of the Psalms].

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Contributor:

Elkan, Caroline, former owner.

Haarburg, Em., former owner.

Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning, former owner.

Cohen, Joshua I., 1801-1870, former owner.

Standardized Title:

Bible. Psalms. Latin & German.

Language:

German

Hebrew

Latin

Subjects (All):

Bible. Psalms--translations into Latin.

Bible.

Bible. Psalms--translations into German.

Genre:

Manuscripts, European.

Manuscripts, Latin -- 18th century.

Manuscripts, Latin -- 19th century.

Manuscripts, German -- 18th century.

Manuscripts, German -- 19th century.

Hybrid books.

Codices (bound manuscripts)

translations (documents)

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by Caroline Elkan (fountainpen inscription, f. 278r, circa 1850).

Formerly owned by Joshua I. Cohen (Dropsie College files).

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

Formerly owned by Em. Haarberg, Altenstadt, Bavaria (between Ulm and Memmingen; inscription, final blank leaf: "Altenstadt bei Memingen, Kngt. Bayern, Em. Haarberg ex"; additional facing inscription in Yiddish, וועגען צו לענגען רעגנען ווירדען פאלגענדע מיזמורים [...]"", indicating that this owned may have been a chazzan (cantor)).

Physical Description:

297 leaves : paper ; 148 x 90 (130 x 88) mm bound to 153 x 110 mm.

Place of Publication:

[Germany?], [after 1783-1850?].

Language Note:

Latin and German (adjacent columns), translated from the Hebrew.

Summary:

This is a manuscript of a double translation of the Psalms into Latin and German, written on interleaves of a printed Hebrew edition of the Psalms (Sefer Tehilim = Psalterium [...]: Witebergae : Ex officina Iohannis Cratonis, 1576; see the print record); written and bound in to the book after printing (the manuscript's blind-ruling and the variable number of interleaves per printed folio). The Latin varies from the text of the Vulgate (for example: X:10, translating משגב לעתות בצרה as "arx temporibus in anguisia", f. 13r; LXXV:6, תדברו בצואר עתק as "loquamini callo duro" (f. 176r); the German varies from the Luther translation (for example, Psalm LXXXVIII:4 translated in this manuscript as "[...] düch allen König v[or] d. Juden" (f. 278r). Selections of the translations of specific Psalms are unfinished, such as the translation of LXII (f. 115v-116v) and CXV (f. 233r-v). Contains marginalia, such as a definition of a plant species (רתמים (for Psalms CXX:4) as "holz-Genista" (f. 257v)).

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title supplied by cataloger.

Foliation: Paper, ix, 297, xii; modern foliation in pencil, 1-297, lower left recto.

Layout: Written in two columns (Latin translation at edge, German translation at gutter); blind-ruled between columns (one vertical bounding line).

Script: Written in cursive scripts; Psalm numerals bolded.

Binding: Blue buckram (20th century); design-printed endpapers.

Origin: Written likely in Germany, after 1783 (a note on f. 269v is a transcription of a note on that Psalm by Georg Friedrich Seiler, from his edition of the Luther Bible (Die Heilige Schrift des Alten Testaments im Auszug, samt dem ganzen Neuen Testament: Erlangen, 1783)) until approximately 1850.

Related Collections:

Another codex manuscript interleaved Biblical translation, with manuscript leaves facing printed leaves, is UPenn CAJS Rar Ms 650 ; that manuscript a 17th-18th century Swiss commentary on Genesis.

Cited as:

[Latin and German translation of the Psalms]. (UPenn CAJS Rar Ms 655). Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania.

OCLC:

1404840428