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Title

Other related names

• Moldovan, Joseph, donor
• Moldovan, Susan, donor

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Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9977505013803681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1091591296

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Language

Origin

Date

after 1795

Place

Metz?

Summary

This is a manuscript of a bookseller's catalog for Hebrew printed books, generally of a rabbinic interest. The heading opens with a mark of a catalog of Eisek Hayyim ben Tsevi, the name of the bookseller; it is unclear whether the script hand is his. The lists of volumes continue for ten folios, listed in the order of the aleph bet, with the list of titles on the right side and the price on the left side; prices are marked in two columns of franc and centime. Standard rabbinic editions of the time listed include Abudarham (likely Amsterdam 1726 by Moses Frankfurt; f. 1r), Kaftor u-feraḥ (also called Kaṿanat ha-ʼagadot, Amsterdam 1708-9 by Asher-Anshil Hazzan; f. 4r), Kereti u-feleti (Altona, s.n., 1762-3; f. 4r), and Yosif omets (Frankfurt-am-Main, 1723, printed by Johann Kölner; f. 4r). Some titles are kabbalistic, such as Sefer ha-gilgulim of Hayyim Vital (Frankfurt 1684 by Nathan Grünhut; f. 2r), ha-Bahir attributed to Neḥunya ben ha-Kanah (likely the Berlin 1706 print; f. 8v), and Petaḥ ha-ʼohel by Abraham of Przemyśl (printed in 1690-1 in Sulzbach-Rosenberg by Moses Bloch; f. 7r). Controversial titles include Luḥot ʻedut by Jonathan Eybeschütz (printed in Altona 1755 by Aharon Katz; f. 4r) and the commentary to the Torah by Moses Mendelssohn (Netivot ha-Shalom, Berlin 1783 by George Friedrich Starcke; f. 9r). The list ends with a tally of the prices (f. 10v). Following is a list of expanded or later editions written likely by the same hand but later than the first element (f. 11r). Included in this list is the volumes of the Talmud printed in Metz (f. 11r); while three of the volumes (Berakhot, Betsah, and Nidah) were printed in 1770 by Moses Mai and Joseph Antoine, listed is also Rosh ha-Shanah, which was printed in 1777 by Gottschalk Speier, dating the second element to after this volume was released.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from caption title (f. 1r).
   
• 1. f. 1r-10v: Reshimat sefarim [mahadurot ḳadmonim] -- 2. f. 11r-11v: [Reshimat sefarim] mahadura batra.
   

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Provenance

• GIFT FROM THE MOLDOVAN FAMILY COLLECTION By Joseph T. Moldovan C'76 and Susan A. Moldovan C'76. Donated in Honor and Memory of Jean and Dr. Alfred Moldovan.
   

Subjects topical

• Jews
• France--Metz
• Jews--France--Metz--18th century
• Lorraine (France)--History--Sources

Genres

• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Booksellers' catalogs
• Manuscripts, Hebrew
• Manuscripts, European

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