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

Title

Other related names

• Donati, Yosef Tsemaḥ Gavriʼel, dedicatee
  דונאטי, יוסף גבריאל צמח.
• Gross, William L, former owner

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9979215024103681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1405921603
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/1229058 https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p34747t2s

Publisher

Language

Origin

Date

1775?-1825?

Place

Italy

Summary

This is a miniature manuscript of prayers for the time of plague on parchment; the prayers consist of selections from the Psalms (XLI, XX, XXXVIII) and verse repetition (Genesis XVIII:6, XLIII:11) and the "Parashat ha-Ḳeṭoret" (the Biblical and Talmudic passages detailing the creation of the incense in the Temple; the invocation of the incense used as a spiritual protection from plague is likely based on the Zohar (Ṿa-yeḥi 419)), completing on f. 9r; additional verses from Numbers (XVII:11-13), and the concluding prayer (f. 10r-11r), and miscellanea (f. 11r-12v). A Shiviti amulet was begun but not finished (f. 13r; folios 14-16 blank); large Shiviti text written in calligraphy (f. 1r).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   

Extent

Collation

Support

Binding

Layout

Script

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Tel Aviv collector William L. Gross (Kedem); former call number The Gross Family Collection, Tel Aviv, IT.012.003.
   
• Sold by Kedem Auctions (Jerusalem), Sale 92 lot 68 (as part of selections from the Gross Family Collection).
   

Subjects topical

• Plague--Italy--18th century
• Plague--Italy--19th century
• Plague--Religious aspects--Judaism
• Jews--Italy--18th century--History--Sources
• Jews--Italy--19th century--History--Sources

Genres

• codices (bound manuscripts)
• Manuscripts, Hebrew--18th century
• Manuscripts, Hebrew--19th century
• calligraphy (visual works)
• Miniature books
• Manuscripts, European

Licenses

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