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Founding document for the Ḥesed shel emet organization, Sofia, Bulgaria ; manuscript.
מסמך היסוד של 'חסד של אמת', סופיה, בולגריה.
Library at the Katz Center - Archives Room Manuscript CAJS Arc Misc Mss 000.218.26
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- Format:
- Book
- Manuscript
- Language:
- Ladino
- Subjects (All):
- Charities--Bulgaria--Sofia--19th century--Constitution.
- Charities.
- Sephardim--Bulgaria--Sofia--19th century--Societies, etc.
- Sephardim.
- Manuscripts, Spanish--Bulgaria--Sofia--19th century--Specimens.
- Manuscripts, Spanish.
- Genre:
- autographs (manuscripts)
- Penn Provenance:
- Removed from the Dropsie copy of: Daṿid, ha-Leṿi, toshav Ḳrayovah. Sefer Ṭov ṿe-yafeh : le-toʻelet ha-neʻarim... (Bucuresti : Tipografia jurnal. Nat̜ionalulŭ, 1860).
- Physical Description:
- 1 leaf : paper ; 27 cm
- Production:
- [Sofia, Bulgaria], [Friday, 2 Nisan [5]658, 25 March 1898]
- [סופיה, בולגריה], 2 ניסן, 658
- Language Note:
- Judeo-Spanish (Judeoespañol).
- Summary:
- Founding document of a benevolent burial society, likely in the environs of Sofia; undersigned by Isaac Alkalay of Sofia, with eleven additional signatories; written in a Solitreo cursive script; this Isaac Alkalay possibly related to Mosheh David Alkalai, publisher of the volume it was laid in (see the record for Sefer Ṭov ṿe-yafeh).
- Notes:
- Title supplied by cataloger.
- Cited as:
- Founding document for the Ḥesed shel emet organization, Sofia, Bulgaria (UPenn CAJS Arc Misc Mss 000.218.26). Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania.
- OCLC:
- 1481529255
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