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Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

CAJS Rar Ms 559a Letter, 1770 January 23, Altona to David ben Loeb Berlin. / [מכתב, כ"ו טבת תק"ל, אלטונא אל דוד בן ליב בערלין]

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Letter, 1770 January 23, Altona to David ben Loeb Berlin.
[מכתב, כ"ו טבת תק"ל, אלטונא אל דוד בן ליב בערלין]

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CAJS Rar Ms 559a
(420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19106-3703, University of Pennsylvania, Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies)

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Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Hebrew; one word in German (in Hebrew charachters, repeated twice)

Origin

Written in Altona, then Denmark (today part of Hamburg, Germany).
Date
26 Tevet 5530 (23 January 1770)
Place
Altona

Notes

Extent

1 leaf : 168 x 208 (145 x 200) mm

Support

Paper

Layout

  • Written in twelve lines (letter text) and an additional two lines of greeting above; date centered at upper end.
  • Script

  • Written in a Ashkenazic cursive script in the hand of Tsevi-Hirsch ben Elḥanan of Altona.
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