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Title

Miscellany on Hebrew prose and writing.
[קובץ במליצות ומכתבים]

Authors

• Ibn Ẓur, Jacob ben Reuben, 1673-1752
  אבן צור, יעקב בן ראובן
• Serero, Saul ben Matityahu, active 18th century
  סירירו, שאול בן מתתיהו

Other related names

• Rappaport, Isaac ben Judah, ha-Kohen, -1755, attributed name
  רפפורט, יצחק,
• Assayag, Yosef Yitsḥaḳ, former owner
  אצאייג, יוסף יצחק.
• Gross, William L, former owner

Call number

CAJS Rar Ms 661
(420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19106-3703, University of Pennsylvania, Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9979215023303681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1408450096
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/1229047 https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3zg6h86g

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Date

5536 1775-1776

Place

Morocco

Summary

This is a manuscript miscellany composed of works on Hebrew prose, writing, and grammar; the first work is an epistolary by Jacob ben Reuben Ibn Ẓur (f. 3r-41v), and the second by Saul ben Matityahu Serero (18th century; f. 43r-56r, alive as of this manuscript), both of Fès, and both are called "Leshon limudim" in this manuscript (taken from Isaiah L:4, and used commonly as a title for works on language, composition, and grammar). The manuscript also contains an organized anthology of suffixes to be used in writing Hebrew prose attributed to Isaac b. Judah ha-Kohen Rappaport called "Leshon ḥakhamim" (f. 69v-80r; title taken from the Talmud, Hullin 137b; attributed by Jacob Moses Toledano (his description laid in with the Jewish Theological Seminary of America manuscript). Serero's work is introduced (and contains edits) by "David Oḥayo" (likely Oḥayon; f. 43r).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   
• 1. f.3r-41v: Leshon limudim/Ibn Ẓur, Jacob ben Reuben -- 2. f.43r-56r: Leshon limudim/Serero, Saul ben Matityahu -- 3. f. 60v-80r: Leshon ḥakhamim/Rappaport, Isaac b. Judah ha-Kohen [attributed].
   

Extent

85 leaves : 205 x 148 (160 x 115) mm bound to 210 x 158 mm

Support

Paper

Binding

Modern red faux-leather binding, with white endpapers; blind-tooled frame on front board.

Layout

Written mostly in 25 long lines, with blind-ruling around the textblock; Leshon ḥakhamim portion written in three columns, mostly of 32 lines, ruled (verticals) in ink; running titles.

Script

Written in a Maghrebi cursive script; captions and some highlights written in a Sephardic square script.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Tel Aviv collector William L. Gross (Kedem); former call number The Gross Family Collection, Tel Aviv, MO.011.015.
   
• Formerly exhibited in Paris for Arts et cultures du Maroc, 2004 (Kedem).
   
• Sold by Kedem Auctions (Jerusalem), Sale 93 lot 111 (as part of selections from the Gross Family Collection).
   

Subjects topical

• Epistolary poetry--Early works to 1800
• Hebrew language--Composition and exercises
• Zodiac
• Rabbis--Morocco--Fès--Correspondence--17th century
• Rabbis--Morocco--Fès--Correspondence--18th century

Genres

• Literature
• anthologies
• tuǧras
• codices (bound manuscripts)
• Manuscripts, Hebrew--18th century

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 3r — Leshon limudim/Ibn Ẓur, Jacob ben Reuben
• fol. 3r — לשון למודים\אבן צור, יעקב בן ראובן
• fol. 43r — Leshon limudim/Serero, Saul ben Matityahu
• fol. 43r — לשון למודים\סרירו, שאול בן מתתיהו
• fol. 60v — Leshon ḥakhamim/Rappaport, Isaac b. Judah ha-Kohen [attributed]
• fol. 60v — לשון חכמים\רפפורט, יצחק בן יהודה הכהן