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)
Medicine -- Early works to 1800.; Medicine, Arab.; Jews -- Italy -- Sicily -- History -- Sources.; Manuscripts, Judeo-Arabic; 15th century.; Manuscripts, Hebrew; 19th century.; Manuscripts, Samaritan; Manuscripts, Renaissance.; Codices.; Treatises.
Personal Name:
Saʻid ibn Hibat Allāh ibn al-Ḥusayn,; Avicenna,; Abū al-Ḥasan Sa'ad,; David ben Shalom,
Language:
Judeo-Arabic, with a brief work in Hebrew (f. 25r-39v); notes in Samaritan (f. 1v-7v, 21r-22v, 3 bifolia laid in after f. 22v, marginal notes as on f. 281v), Arabic (f. 1r, marginal notes on Samaritan bifolia), and Latin letters (f. 20v, 25v, 238r, 239v).
An answer to a pamphlet, entitled, Considerations on the bill to permit persons professing the Jewish religion to be naturalized : wherein the false reasoning, gross misrepresentation of facts, and perversion of scripture, are fully laid open and detected. Answer to the Considerations on the bill to permit Jews to be naturalized
Subject:
Jews -- Emancipation -- Great Britain -- Sources -- Early works to 1800.; Jews -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Great Britain -- Sources -- Early works to 1800.; Judaism -- Controversial literature -- Early works to 1800.; Naturalization -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800.; PU
Description:
Kaplan Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2012 by Arnold and Deanne Kaplan.; Kaplan Collection copy imperfect: p.95-96 wanting.
Personal Name:
Philo-Patriae,; Cooke, H.,
Date:
1753
Publisher:
London : Printed for H. Cooke, at the Royal Exchange, and sold at all the pamphlet shops in London and Westminster, 1753.
Collection:
Arnold and Deanne Kaplan Collection of Early American Judaica (University of Pennsylvania)
Del esta[tu]to Toledano, i çierta apologia [manuscript].
Subject:
Inquisition -- Spain -- Early works to 1800.; Jews -- Spain -- Early works to 1800.; Codices.; Testimonies.; Manuscripts, Spanish; 16th century.; Manuscripts, Renaissance.
Horses -- Diseases -- Early works to 1800.; Veterinary medicine -- Early works to 1800.; Medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions -- Early works to 1800.; Codices.; Treatises.; Manuscripts, Italian; 15th century.; Manuscripts, Renaissance.
Theodori Kerckringii doctoris medici Commentarius in Currum triumphalem antimonii Basilii Valentini, à se latinitate donatum [manuscript].
Subject:
Alchemy -- Early works to 1800.; Antimony -- Early works to 1800.; Chemistry -- History.; Medicine -- Early works to 1800.; Medicine, Medieval.; Codices.; Commentaries.; Drawings.; Manuscripts, Latin; 17th century.; Manuscripts, European.
Personal Name:
Hooghe, Romeyn de,; Kerckring, Theodor,
Language:
Latin, with occasional words in Greek (for example, p. 175).
The excellencies of the kindness of Onesiphorus to St. Paul, when he was a prisoner in Rome : exemplified in a discourse preach'd before the inhabitants of the parish of St. Petrock in Exeter, on Sunday the 6th of July, 1735 : occasioned by their delivering Joseph Ottolenghe, a poor convert Jew, out of South-gate prison, into which he was cast by a Jew, after his conversion to Christianity : Published at the request of the parishioners of St. Petrock's : For the benefit of the said poor convert Jew / by Lewis Stephens, Archdeacon of Chester, and Canon-Residentiary of the Cathedral-Church of St. Peter, Exon.
Subject:
Christian converts from Judaism -- Early works to 1800.; Jews -- Great Britain -- Political and social conditions -- Early works to 1800.; PU
Description:
Kaplan Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Arnold and Deanne Kaplan.
Personal Name:
Ottolenghe, Joseph.
Date:
1735
Publisher:
Exon : Printed by E. Farley for E. Score, bookseller, and S. Birt, at the Bible and Ball in Ave-Mary Lane, London, [1735]
Collection:
Arnold and Deanne Kaplan Collection of Early American Judaica (University of Pennsylvania)
Medicine -- Early works to 1800.; Medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions -- Early works to 1800.; Medicine, Medieval.; Pigments -- Early works to 1800.; Plague -- Early works to 1800.; Codices.; Anthologies.; Manuscripts, German; 15th century.; Manuscripts, Medieval.; Manuscripts, Renaissance.
Description:
Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.
Nyaya -- Early works to 1800.; Logic -- India -- Early works to 1800.; Hindu logic -- Early works to 1800.; Hindu philosophy -- Early works to 1800.; Indian philosophy -- Early works to 1800.; Treatises.; Manuscripts, Sanskrit; 17th century.; 18th century.; Manuscripts; India