Study calendar ; manuscript.
סדר לימוד.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Saliman Yosef Nisim Saliman, (Surat, India), active 18th-19th centuries, author, illustrator, scribe.

Contributor:

Ḥayim Daṿid Ḥayim, of Surat, active 19th century, forger, former owner.

Yaʻaḳov Yonah Yitsḥaḳ, of Kolkata, active 19th century, former owner.

Madai, Eliyah Yitsḥaḳ, former owner.

Elis & Ruth Douer Endowed Fund.

חיים דויד חיים, סוראת, המאה ה-19.

יעקב יונה יצחק, מכלכתה.

מדי, אליה יצחק.

Language:

Hebrew

Subjects (All):

Bible. Old Testament--Hebrew--Study and teaching.

Bible.

Mishnah--Study and teaching.

Mishnah.

Manuscripts, Hebrew--India--Surat--19th century--Specimens.

Manuscripts, Hebrew.

Genre:

Tables (Data)

pen and ink drawings.

pen and wash drawings.

stencils (visual works)

Penn Provenance:

Nisim Saliman purchased the volume from Binyamin Shelomoh Atslan in Surat, Heshvan [5]567 (October 1806), and gifted the set with the manuscript to Mosheh Raḥamim, 1 Av 5571 (July 22, 1811), thus dating the manuscript.

Formerly owned by Ḥayim Daṿid Ḥayim (inscriptions, book title page, and reconfigured name on manuscript; Ḥayim (19th century) was from a prominent Jewish family in Surat, India; see Ben-Jacob, Abraham, Yehude Bavel ba-tefutsot (Jerusalem, 1985), p. 45).

Formerly owned by Yaʻaḳov Yonah Yitsḥaḳ (inscription, book title page, v.1; he was a member of the Jewish community in Kolkata, India; see Ben-Jacob, p. 137).

Sold by Kedem Auctions, Jerusalem, Auction 69 lot 88, 3 December 2019.

Formerly owned by Eliyah Yitsḥaḳ Madai (inscription, book title page, v.1: "אליה יצחק מדי").

Physical Description:

1 leaf : paper ; 44 x 27 cm

Production:

[Surat, India], [between October 1806 and 22 July 1811].

[סוראת, הודו], [בין חשון תקס"ז-ראש חודש אב תקע"א].

Other Title:

caption: Seder Ha-limud ; zeh seder tiḳun ha-limud le-mi she-yirtseh le-zakot et ʻatsmo li-kero be-khol shanah ṿe-shanah kol Ḥamishah Ḥumshe Torah ṿe-g[am] k[en] Neviʼim u-Khetuvim ve-ʻod Shita Sidre Mishnah...

caption: סדר הלימוד : זה סדר תקון הלימוד למי שירצה לזכות את עצמו לקרוא בכל שנה ושנה כל חמשה חומשי תורה וגם נביאים וכתובים ועוד ששה סדרי משנה...

Language Note:

In Hebrew.

Summary:

Manuscript leaf of a study calendar, bound-in to the second volume of a copy of Kehilot Mosheh (the Seventh Rabbinic Bible; Amsterdam, 1723 or 1724-1728, between gatherings [122] and [123]), written and decorated by a former owner of the book; the manuscript was written on a folio sheet bound-in between the books of Samuel and Kings. Five central vertical rectangles drawn in ink with double-bounding lines(the outer two are for the artist's name, originally reading ואני בקולמוסי הצעיר סלימאן יוסף נסים יצ"ו, written by ink-blackened lettering, called the spared-ground lettering technique, or in Hebrew כתב חציבה; a subsequent owner, Ḥayim Daṿid Ḥayim, manipulated portions of the letters with ink to read his name; the original name is visible under light); the four central columns are tables for studying the Pentateuch, Prophets, Hagiographa, and the six orders of Mishnah. Title Seder ha-limud written in spared-ground technique inside dark rectangle, with traced decorative flourish and floral patterns around a calligraphic Middle Eastern square script; rectangular column two and other column headings written in a Sephardic square script, and remainder of text written in a Middle Eastern cursive script; ink patterns (octagonal tiled borders and patterns, with faux-gilt square traced bounding lines).

Contents:

Parshiyot

Neviʼim

Ketuvim

Shita Sidre Mishnah.

פרשיות

נביאים

כתובים

שיתא סדרי משנה.

Notes:

Title supplied by cataloger; romanization supplied by cataloger.

Local Notes:

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

Cited as:

Study calendar (UPenn CAJS Rar Ms 708). Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania.

OCLC:

1443181554

Bound With:

Item bound with: Bible. Old Testament. Hebrew. Ḳehilot Mosheh. 1723-1728 (Amsterdam). Sefer Ḳehilot Mosheh (Nidpas be-Amśṭerdam : Be-vet uve-defus shel ha-dayan ha-n.l. [that is, Moses Frankfurter], [5484 [that is, 1723 or 1724]-10 Av 5488 [that is, 1728 16 July], V.2.