Targum sheni, with Judeo-Malayalam translation and adaptation : manuscript.
קמיעת-עור.

Format:

Manuscript

Contributor:

Musleah, Ezekiel N., donor.

Musleah, Margaret, donor.

Musleah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies)

Standardized Title:

Targum sheni. Aramaic & Judeo-Malayalam.

תרגום שני. עברית & מליאלאם-יהודית.

Language:

Aramaic

Malayalam

Subjects (All):

Midrash--Translations into Malayalam.

Midrash.

Manuscripts, Aramaic--India--19th century--Specimens.

Manuscripts, Aramaic.

Manuscripts, Malayalam--India--19th century--Specimens.

Manuscripts, Malayalam.

Penn Provenance:

Gift from Rabbi Ezekiel N. and Margaret Musleah; removed from: Farhi, Yosef Shabtai. Sefer ʻOśeh fele (Livorno: Israel Costa, 1854-1869), volume 3.

Physical Description:

1 leaf ; 22 x 32 cm + 2 fragments

Production:

[Kochi? India], [1850?-1899?]

[קוגין, הודו?], [סוף המאה ה-19]

Contained In:

CAJS ARC Misc Mss. 225, folder 28.

Language Note:

In Aramaic, with translation to Judeo-Malayalam.

Summary:

Manuscript recitative translation of terms from the Targum sheni, an Aramaic apocryphal explanation to the Biblical Book of Esther, in this version with additions for study in the style of translations and elaborations to the Midrashim in the Cochini manner; Aramaic text written in a Iraqi-Indian semicursive script, vocalized, and the Malayalam script written in-line to terms translated.

Related Collections:

Another contemporary translation to a Midrash, written in a similar elaborative Judeo-Malayalam style of translation to the Midrash Lamentations Rabbah, is UPenn CAJS Rar Ms 504.

Cited as:

Targum sheni (CAJS ARC Misc Mss 000.225.28). Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania.

OCLC:

1520425001