Search
You searched for:
Type
Manuscripts
Remove constraint Type: Manuscripts
Language
Hebrew
Remove constraint Language: Hebrew
« Previous |
1 - 10 of 11
|
Next »
Number of results to display per page
Search Results
- Title:
- Ketubah book : K.K. Beth El Emeth.
- Subject:
- Ketubahs; Marriage certificates; Manuscripts, Hebrew -- 19th century
- Description:
- Bound compilation of manuscript marriage contracts for 62 couples married by George Jacobs between November 5, 1873, and November 13, 1881. Jacobs served as the rabbi of Congregation Beth El Emeth from 1869 to his death in 1884. His term followed that of Isaac Leeser, who founded the synagoge in 1857 and served as its rabbi until his death in 1868. Most weddings took place in Philadelphia, with two each in Doylestown and Lancaster, Pennsylvania; one each in Harrisburg, Manayunk, Abingdon, and Huntingdon, Pennsylvania; and one each in Richmond and Lynchburg, Virginia. Every ketubah is written in the hand of Jacobs, with the abridged ketubah text in a single block paragraph, justified by stretching characters, and his Hebrew name Gershon bar Mosheh S_imh_ah inscribed at the foot of each leaf. Ketubahs are signed by the groom and 2 witnesses. Congregational president Morris Rosenbach signed as witness on several occasions. Couples' English names, wedding date, and wedding location when not in Philadelphia recorded in English at the head of each leaf. The contracts were entered into the volume from left to right on the rectos, with versos left blank. Volume bound in blind-stamped leather, with gilt title on left cover; covers detached and spine damaged.
- Personal Name:
- Rosenbach, Morris
- Corporate Name:
- Congregation Beth El Emeth (Philadelphia, Pa.)
- Contributor:
- Jacobs, George, 1834-1884
- Date:
- 19th century
- Language:
- Aramaic; Hebrew; English
- Rights:
- http://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?
- Collection:
- Arnold and Deanne Kaplan Collection of Early American Judaica (University of Pennsylvania)
- Call Number:
- MS 56, Codex 003.1
- Title:
- Manuscript; Goldstein, Isaac; 1863
- Description:
- Manuscript acrostic poem in Hebrew in honor of Abraham Lincoln in which each line begins with a different letter of Lincoln's name. Written by Isaac Goldstein c. 1863, perhaps on the occasion of the Emancipation Proclamation. The poem later appeared in the June 24, 1865 issue of the Jewish Messenger.
- Personal Name:
- Goldstein, Isaac
- Date:
- 1863
- Language:
- Hebrew
- Rights:
- http://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?
- Collection:
- Arnold and Deanne Kaplan Collection of Early American Judaica (University of Pennsylvania)
- Call Number:
- Arc.MS.56
- Title:
- Manuscript; undated
- Subject:
- Manuscripts (documents); Scholars
- Description:
- A manuscript called, "An oriental language explained upon oriental principles," by an unknown author. [According to the donor, it was found in the papers of Hon. John Davis (1761-1847) of Boston, a federal judge and politician.]
- Date:
- unknown
- Language:
- English; Hebrew
- Rights:
- http://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?
- Collection:
- Arnold and Deanne Kaplan Collection of Early American Judaica (University of Pennsylvania)
- Call Number:
- Arc.MS.56
- Title:
- Manuscript; Cohen, Abraham Eleazer; Cohen, Jacob I.; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States; Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States; 1778-1779
- Description:
- Manuscript calendar (Luach) for the year 5539 (1778-1779) listing solar date, Hebrew date, day of the week, and special days and Torah readings written by Avraham son of Eleazer Katz (Cohen) in Philadelphia. Also contains an additional signature "G. Wetzell, Lancaster."
- Personal Name:
- Cohen, Abraham Eleazer; Cohen, Jacob I.
- Date:
- 1778-1779
- Language:
- Hebrew
- Rights:
- http://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?
- Collection:
- Arnold and Deanne Kaplan Collection of Early American Judaica (University of Pennsylvania)
- Call Number:
- Arc.MS.56
- Title:
- Minḥat ʻerev li-vene Sefarad : ... Namiddag en avondgebed ... : seder tefilat Minḥah ṿe-ʻArvit li-yeme ha-ḥol ke-minhag ha-Sefaradim ... / door Lopes Cardozo ... = מנחת ערב לבני ספרד : סדר תפלת מנחה וערבית לימי החול כמנהג ספרדים יע"א.
- Description:
- This is a small prayerbook of Hebrew prayers in the Sefardic rite printed in Amsterdam for the Spanish-Portugese descended community. The editor and composer of the instructions in Dutch was Jacob Lopes Cardozo of Amsterdam. Includes Minḥah, ʻArvit, portions of Seliḥot for the Elul month, additions for Ḥanukah and Purim, and additions for mourners. With an addendum on grammar usage by Lopes Cardozo on pages 79-80.
- Date:
- 1865
- Language:
- Dutch; Hebrew
- Publisher:
- Amsterdam : D. de Miranda & Co., 5625 = 1865.
- Rights:
- https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
- Collection:
- Arnold and Deanne Kaplan Collection of Early American Judaica (University of Pennsylvania)
- Call Number:
- MS 56, Codex 022.3
- Title:
- Jacob Mordecai notebooks, circa 1810-1820, Volume 2
- Subject:
- Jews -- North Carolina -- 19th century; Judaism -- Apologetic works
- Description:
- Two volumes attributed to Jacob Mordecai comprising notes and arguments in the defense of Judaism against Christianity. Each volume contains citations or Biblical passages followed by Mordecai's commentary and arguments. Many of the citations are used to defend Judaism. There are many copied portions of the Old Testament, New Testament, and Jewish religious works. In Volume 2 Mordecai copied David Levi's response to Joseph Priestly's letter regarding Jewish conversion to Christianity. Topical headings appear in the volumes including Bishop Warburtion, crucifixion and resurrection, and the three witnesses. Volume 2 contains a glossary of Hebrew words with English meanings on the first unnumbered leaf. Words in Hebrew appear throughout the volume. Both volumes are hand sewn and have detached leaves. Volume 1 has paper covers and No. 3 is written on the front. Volume 1 has hand-numbered pages 1-81. Volume 2 is lacking covers and has hand-numbered pages 81-156.
- Personal Name:
- Mordecai, Jacob, 1762-1838.
- Date:
- circa 1810-1820
- Language:
- English; Hebrew
- Rights:
- http://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?
- Collection:
- Arnold and Deanne Kaplan Collection of Early American Judaica (University of Pennsylvania)
- Call Number:
- MS 56, Codex 035.1, v. 2
- Title:
- Jacob Mordecai notebooks, circa 1810-1820, Volume 1
- Subject:
- Jews -- North Carolina -- 19th century; Judaism -- Apologetic works
- Description:
- Two volumes attributed to Jacob Mordecai comprising notes and arguments in the defense of Judaism against Christianity. Each volume contains citations or Biblical passages followed by Mordecai's commentary and arguments. Many of the citations are used to defend Judaism. There are many copied portions of the Old Testament, New Testament, and Jewish religious works. In Volume 2 Mordecai copied David Levi's response to Joseph Priestly's letter regarding Jewish conversion to Christianity. Topical headings appear in the volumes including Bishop Warburtion, crucifixion and resurrection, and the three witnesses. Volume 2 contains a glossary of Hebrew words with English meanings on the first unnumbered leaf. Words in Hebrew appear throughout the volume. Both volumes are hand sewn and have detached leaves. Volume 1 has paper covers and No. 3 is written on the front. Volume 1 has hand-numbered pages 1-81. Volume 2 is lacking covers and has hand-numbered pages 81-156.
- Personal Name:
- Mordecai, Jacob, 1762-1838.
- Date:
- circa 1810-1820
- Language:
- English; Hebrew
- Rights:
- http://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?
- Collection:
- Arnold and Deanne Kaplan Collection of Early American Judaica (University of Pennsylvania)
- Call Number:
- MS 56, Codex 035.1, v. 1
- Title:
- [Secrets of wisdom].
- Subject:
- Jews -- Netherlands -- History -- Sources; Alchemy -- Early works to 1800; Chemistry -- Early works to 1800; Medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions -- Early works to 1800
- Description:
- Multilingual miscellany of culinary, medical, and household chemistry recipes; esoteric and alchemical notes; trade information and accounts; and family records, compiled over more than a century, possibly by members of one Sefardic family based in or near Amsterdam or Naarden. The oldest material at the beginning of the volume (f. 1r-23v) includes a medical treatise on the doctrine of signatures and a small group of prescriptions, both in Portuguese, and a biographical introduction to the reader in Spanish signed J.C.A., which refers to the arrival of Jewish physician Benedicto de Castro in Amsterdam in 1671 (f. 12r). An excerpt from the Amsterdamsche Courant dated 1797 relatively early in the volume (f. 40r) suggests that most of the volume was written in the 19th century before 1835. Esoteric content includes astrological references (f. 7v-9v); alchemical symbols (f. 10v-11r, 62v, 140v); a spell in Hebrew for killing an enemy (f. 34r); possible incantations (f. 50r); a magic square (f. 53v); reference to the angel Uriel (f. 98r); and page citations to items of alchemical interest in the diary of the French diplomat and physicist Balthasar de Monconys, published after his death in 1665 (f. 137r-138r), Twenty printed leaves with the running title Calendrier intéressant are pasted to leaves, covering recipes and notes (some printed leaves now loose and two missing from the sequence, f. 79v-90r). These are sequential leaves (p. 3-46) from a copy of Calendrier intéressant pour l'année ..., ou Almanach physico-économique, published by the Société Typographique of Bouillon from 1770 into the early 1780s. The pages here include references to the Calendriers of 1771 and 1772, so were likely printed in the years immediately following, but the writing on the pages beneath them is from the early decades of the 19th century (for example, a note on the death of Napoleon Bonaparte in 1821, f. 80r). A small amount of shipping, currency, and price information is scattered on a few leaves (Paris, Bordeaux, and Marseilles, f. 60r; Castilian weights, Livorno, Curaçao, New York, 131v-135r; Paris, Bordeaux, Geneva, Venice, Charlestown, New York, 148v-152v). The family records at the end of the volume (f. 171r-174r) document births and deaths, many with the family name Henriquez (or Henriques), from 1759 to 1835, not recorded in chronological order.
- Date:
- [after 1685?]-1835
- Language:
- Dutch; Portuguese; Spanish; Hebrew; French; English
- Rights:
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/UND/1.0/
- Collection:
- Arnold and Deanne Kaplan Collection of Early American Judaica (University of Pennsylvania)
- Call Number:
- MS 56, Codex 034.1
- Title:
- Partitur, between 1860 and 1899.
- Subject:
- Judaism -- Liturgy -- Texts; Synagogue music
- Description:
- Collection of over 20 choral pieces for a synagogue choir. The pieces at the beginning of the manuscript (p. 1-46) are marked in parts for soloists and chorus; in the rest of the manuscript parts are also marked for the cantor. The Hebrew lyrics are transliterated for pronunciation by German readers, who might have been in Germany or in the United States. A small number of pieces have attributions, to Naumburg (Louis Naumburg, 1813-1902, p. 1, 115), Abrass (Osias Joshua Abrass, 1820-1884, p. 11), Madame Handvogel (Virginie Handvogel?, p. 73), Blumenthal (Nissan Blumenthal?, 1805-1903, p. 78), and Chalaff (p. 108), Many of the pieces are for weekly services; a smaller number are for holidays. Some leaves show evidence of trimming (for example, p. 133)
- Date:
- between 1860 and 1899
- Language:
- Hebrew; German; Italian; French
- Rights:
- http://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?
- Collection:
- Arnold and Deanne Kaplan Collection of Early American Judaica (University of Pennsylvania)
- Call Number:
- MS 56, Codex 032.1
- Title:
- Suriname Minhagim, Luaḥ, and Seder ha-parshiyot, 1860-1869. Volume 1.
- Description:
- A ḥazan in Paramaribo; the Levie family members were cantors in Paramaribo.; These are two manuscripts from a set of three miniature volumes of the liturgy records of the ḥazan; hastily written lines and cross-throughs indicate his personal use. The manuscripts follow a left-hinge style of layout following the Dutch writing; the texts follow the minhag, or individual custom of Suriname. Items of interest from the first volume: phonetic transliterations include mention of an "Aronqudes", meaning "Aron ha-ḳodesh" (the holy ark, f. i verso, 18v); mention is made of "De Elkana van Kipoor", a reference to the hafṭarah portion for Rosh ha-Shanah 1 (from Samuel 1:1-2:10, about Elkanah father of Samuel the prophet; it is unclear why the scribe assigns it to Yom Kippur, f. 6r); a list of simple phrases (such as "Torah; ʻodenu" (likely a reference to Numbers 11:33); "Neviʼim; Barukh H. le-ʻolam; Ketuvim; lekhu neraninah; Mishnah; kol yiśraʼel"; f. 16r), referring to portions Levie assigned or read in the synagogue. Items from the second volume are material for Jewish holidays, with the first word reading "poerim" (i.e. Purim; f. iv) and the following folio headed as "Judendagen", or Jewish days (f. 1r); "Sabbath gazon" (for Shabat ḥazon, for the Shabat preceding Tishʻah be-Av, f. 2r); and "Rosj hasjana" (f. 14v). There is a mention of an Abraham E. Gomperts (f. 14r). The last leaf of the second volume is detached. The latest date in the first volume is 1862 (f. 18v) and the second 1869 (f. 13v). Both are written in informal paragraphs with the Dutch in cursive script and the Hebrew in square script. Bound in soft wrappings, original. Written in Paramaribo, the capital of the Dutch colony of Suriname.; The third volume in the set is a printed prayer book cataloged separately under the title Minḥat ʻerev li-vene Sefarad... (Amsterdam: D. de Miranda & Co., 1865).; Formerly owned by Dutch filmmaker and author Willy Lindwer (stamp, Willy Lindwer Judaica Collectie, inside housing). Sold by Michael Landy (New York), 2013.; Purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2013 by Arnold and Deanne Kaplan (Michael Landy, 2013)
- Date:
- 1860-1869
- Language:
- Dutch; Hebrew
- Rights:
- https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
- Collection:
- Arnold and Deanne Kaplan Collection of Early American Judaica (University of Pennsylvania)
- Call Number:
- MS 56, Codex 022.1-2