Founding document for the Ḥesed shel emet organization, Sofia, Bulgaria ; manuscript.
מסמך היסוד של 'חסד של אמת', סופיה, בולגריה.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Contributor:

Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning, former owner.

Annenberg Research Institute, former owner.

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