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Manuscript/Mixed Material Lists of victims in a catastrophe in Mantua

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Title

  • Lists of victims in a catastrophe in Mantua

Created / Published

  • approximately 1776.

Headings

  • -  Manuscripts, Hebrew--Washington (D.C.)

Notes

  • -  Executed in: [Mantua].
  • -  Italian semi-cursive script.
  • -  Description based on finding aid
  • -  [רשימות החללים בהתמוטטות בית במנטובה] Separate lists of 37 men and 28 women who perished when a floor collapsed on 16 Sivan 5536=31 May 1776, in the home of Graziado (Hannanel) Joseph Finzi in Mantua during the wedding of his son Moses Abraham Finzi (ff. 1r-2v). On ff. 3r-4r a list of the survivors in Italian. On ff. 5r-6v another list of the 65 victims in Italian, including their ages. On this tragedy cf. S. Simonsohn's History of the Jews in the Duchy of Mantua (Jerusalem 1977), p. 79. F. 7 is a separate leaf on which an elegy on the victims of another similar accident that occurred on 6 Tevet (no year mentioned). The elegy is headed קינת סופדים and begins תזל ותכפל אזן שומעת.

Medium

  • 7 ff. Paper. ; 17.7 x 12 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • LC Hebr. Ms 5
  • Micro Orien. Hebr. 880/5

Repository

  • Library of Congress African and Middle Eastern Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA dcu

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2018757622

Online Format

  • pdf
  • image

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