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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialLaws of shehitah (ritual slaughter) Executed in: Senigallia. Italian semi-cursive script. Description based on finding aid Copied by Elia b. Abraham Fermo for his own use, using different inks and nibs, in the school (beth midrash) of David Ascoli. Colophon (f. 59v): אני אליה בכמ' אברהם יצ"ו מפירמו כתבתי מידי ממש זה הלכות שחיטה עם הפירוש וכתבתי בבית המדרש של מורי ורבי דוד יזיי"א מאסקולי יהי רצון מלפני אבינו…- Date: 15??
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialFragments from a divination manual Italian semi-cursive script. Description based on finding aid Colophon on f. 6v dated 5333=1572/3: תם ונשלם תהלה לאל עולם... שנת נצבה שגל לחמנך בכתם אופיר. Deinard, 1914. Ff. 11-13 are blank except for jottings. Work 1: Ff. 1r-6v: [ספר ידיעת המזלות] Astrological predictions based on personal horoscopes. Incomplete. Beginning and end missing. A complete copy of this work is found in MS Vatican, BAV…- Date: 1572
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialSefer Rav Peʻalim Ashkenazic-Italian semi-cursive script. Description based on finding aid [רב פעלים] Sefer Rav Peʻalim, a collection of aphorisms by Isaac b. Abraham ibn Latif. Incomplete. Includes only from near the end of paragraph 11 until the middle of paragraph 80. apparently one leaf at the beginning and one at the end are missing. The text agrees in places with that published by A. Jellinek in…- Date: 1500
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialCommentary on the Five Scrolls Italian semi-cursive script. Description based on finding aid [פירוש המגילות] Commentary on the Five Scrolls. Incomplete. Many of the verses are explained according to kabbalistic teachings. The anonymous author quotes the Zohar according to a printed edition. Includes commentaries on Canticles (ff. 1r-33r) followed by a note on money beginning והכסף יענה את הכל(f. 33r-v, end missing), Lamentations (ff. 34r-65v), Ecclesiastes up to iii:1…- Date: 15??
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialHalakhot Executed in: Mantua. Censors: Domenico Irosolomi[ta]no (f. 67v); Gio[vanni] Domi[ni]co Carretto, 1618 (f. 69v). Cf. B. Richler, in Asufot, 1 (1987), p. 135, no. 71. Deinard 1914. MMW. Italian semi-cursive script. Description based on finding aid Halakhot edited by Moses b. Abraham Provençal according to the laws codified by Moses b. Maimon in his commentary on the Mishnah and his Mishneh Torah. This autograph…- Date: 1552
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialCommentary on Canticles LC Hebr. Ms 160 was written by the same scribe on the same watermarked paper and may have originally been part of this manuscript. Deinard 1914. Italian semi-cursive script. Description based on finding aid [פירוש שיר השירים לעזרא בן שלמה] Kabbalistic commentary on Canticles by Ezra b. Solomon of Gerona, commonly attributed to Moses b. Nahman in the printed editions. Cf. the edition by…- Date: 15??
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialAramaic Targum of the Five Scrolls and the Book of Job Executed in: Governolo. Italian semi-cursive script. Description based on finding aid [תרגום חמש מגילות וספר איוב] Aramaic Targum of the Five Scrolls and the Book of Job. Includes Targum to Canticles (ff. 1r-6r), Ecclesiastes (ff. 6r-11r), Lamentations (ff. 11r-13v, 15r), Ruth 2:13-3:20 (f. 14r-v), Targum Sheni of Esther (ff. 15r-29v) followed by תפלת מרדכי ואסתר the Prayer of Mordecai and Esther in Aramaic (ff.…- Date: 1512
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialExtracts from works on kabbalah Collection of works on kabbalah. LC Hebr. Ms 150 was written by the same scribe on the same watermarked paper and may have originally been part of this manuscript. Deinard 1914. MMW. Italian semi-cursive script. Description based on finding aid Work 1: Ff. 2r-45v: [פירוש מרכבת יחזקאל לר' יעקב הכהן] Jacob b. Jacob ha-Kohen's commentary on the Merkavah in the first chapter of Ezekiel.…- Date: 15??
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialExtracts from kabbalistic works Italian semi-cursive script. Description based on finding aid [ליקוטים בקבלה] Extracts from kabbalistic works. These manuscript leaves were removed from the back of the Library of Congress copy of Menahem Recanati's Ta'amei ha-Mitsvot (Basel 1581) which contains marginal notes in the same hand, and the page references in this manuscript refer to that volume. The fragment attached to the manuscript was once apparently part…- Date: 15??
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Manuscript/Mixed Material[Responsa collected by Elijah b. Elkanah Capsali of Candia] Executed in: Candia. Byzantine semi-cursive scripts. Description based on finding aid Collection of responsa and decisions by several rabbis from 1538-1545 on two controversies in Candia, collected by Elijah b. Elkanah Capsali. The first controversy involved the validity of a marriage ceremony in which two brothers served as witnesses; the second concerned the marital status of a woman whose husband, Moses Kolfati, disappeared and,…- Date: 15??
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialSermons Executed in: Damascus. It is difficult to establish the exact order of the leaves. The names of the months are found at the top of only some of the pages. Also includes two leaves from homilies or novellae on different paper in different scripts. Oriental semi-cursive script. Description based on finding aid [דרשות מאת שמואל ויטל] Sermons preached by Samuel b. Hayyim Vital on…- Date: 1537
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialLetters of Abraham ibn Sanchi Oriental semi-cursive script. Description based on finding aid [אגרות אברהם אבן שנג'י] Fragments from an epistolary exemplar compiled and copied by Abraham ibn Sanchi. Includes copies of some fifteen to twenty-five letters in whole or part. Some of the letters were written by ibn Sanchi, one was written by his father Ephraim b. Nissim ibn Sanchi to the latter's brother Abraham (ff. 8r-9r), and…- Date: 15??
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialIbbronot Executed in: [Eastern Europe, Moravia, Silesia, or Galicia]. A later owner has added the Hebrew name Issachar Ber written across ff. 15r and 16r. Acquired by the Hebraic Section of the Library of Congress in August 2015 from Les Enluminures Bookshop, Chicago. Earlier provenance is provided by Les Enluminures. BINDING Bound in modern dark brown leather binding over sturdy cardboard, four raised bands appear…- Date: 15??
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialTikkunei ha-Rif Italian semi-cursive script. Description based on finding aid [תיקוני הרי"ף] Tikkunei ha-Rif by Samuel b. Mahalalel Del Vecchio. On Isaac Alfasi's compendium of the Talmud, tractates Berakhot, Halakhot Ketanot, Shabbat, Eruvin, Pesahim, Tacannit, Yom Tov, Rosh Hashanah, Sukkah, Megillah and Moced Katan. Censor: Fra Gir[allamo] da Duraz[zano] 1640 (f. [210]v). Owners: הקצין כמ' מתתיה פואה יפיץ ענן אורו בעיר בורגו Mattithias Foa of Borgo…- Date: 15??
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialTikkunei ha-Rif A different hand or hands copied each volume (22A and 22B). It cannot be established if they were originally written to complement each other, or if an owner acquired each volume separately. Deinard 1914. MMW. Italian semi-cursive script. Description based on finding aid [תיקוני הרי"ף] Tikkunei ha-Rif by Samuel b. Mahalalel Del Vecchio. On Isaac Alfasi's compendium of the Talmud, tractates Yevamot, Ketubbot, Gittin,…- Date: 15??
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialGinat Egoz Italian semi-cursive script. Description based on finding aid Owners (f. [1]r): Samuel Nizza זה הספר אשר חנן אלקי את עבדו שמואל ניצה יצ"ו; Emilio e fratte[?] Niz[za] in Torino. Deinard 1914.- Date: 15??
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialShesh Kenafayim Executed in: Governolo. Italian semi-cursive script. Description based on finding aid Censors: Domenico Irosolomi[ta]no (f. 27v); Gio[vanni] Domi[ni]co Carretto, 1618. Old no. Hebr. 4. Accession mark 266992/20. Deinard 1914. MMW. Shesh Kenafayim (Six Wings) or Kanfei Nesharim, as the title reads in this manuscript, by Immanuel b. Jacob Bonfils. The text is on ff. 2r-4r and the astronomical tables on ff. 4v-25v. On f.…- Date: 1513
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialCollection of Kabbalah texts Italian semi-cursive script. Description based on finding aid The manuscript is constructed of two separate manuscripts on different papers bound together. The first manuscript has a modern foliation and the second manuscript has an original or old foliation. Owner (f. 1r, first foliation) שלי יגי"ף. Censor 29v (2nd foliation): Visto per mi Gio. Domenico Carretto 1618. Deinard 1914. Work 1: Ff. 1r-19r (first foliation):…- Date: 15??
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialCollection of kabbalistic and midrashic texts Italian semi-cursive script. Description based on finding aid Owners: Sig. Josef Jona (f. 1r) who signed his name in Hebrew on f. 2r and added that he acquired the manuscript when a library or estate was divided among brothers: הגיע לחלקי בחלוקה עם אחי יצ"ו אני יוסף יונה. Deinard, 1914. MMW. Work 1: Ff. 2r-19v: ספר יורה חטאים בדרך נדפס בויניציאה בשנת מעיל צדקה…- Date: 15??
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialKanfei Yonah Italian semi-cursive script. Description based on finding aid [כנפי יונה] Kanfei Yonah. This is one of the three versions of this text. The complete copies of this version include 213 paragraphs, but this manuscript, like MS Moscow, RSL Guenzburg 477,2, includes only 86 paragraphs after which the copyist added the concluding formula בילא"ו [ברוך י' לעולם אמן ואמן] signifying the end of the treatise.…- Date: 15??
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialNer Mitsvah Oriental-Sephardic semi-cursive script. Description based on finding aid Ner Mitsvah, commentary on Solomon ibn Gabirol's Azharot, by Moses b. Hayyim Pesante. Undoubtedly copied from the first printed edition, Constantinople 1567, including the index at the end in which the references are only to the folio numbers in the edition that do not conform to those added later in this manuscript. Glosses and some corrections…- Date: 15??
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialSermons of Isaac Joshua b. Immanuel de Lattes Italian semi-cursive script. Description based on finding aid [דרשות ר' יצחק די לטיש] Sermons of Isaac Joshua b. Immanuel de Lattes. The beginning of the first sermon is missing as in the end from the middle of pericope Va-Yakhel. This incomplete collection of the sermons of Isaac Lattes is considerably shorter than the complete collection copied by the author's son-in-law Abraham b. Meshullam Sant'Angelo…- Date: 15??
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