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

Title

Sheḥiṭah and meliḥah manual :
מורה שחיטה ומליחה

Authors

• Surugan, Yosef Elyah
  צורגון, יוסף אליה

Other related names

• Goldman, Yosef, former owner

Call number

CAJS Rar Ms 744
(420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19106-3703, University of Pennsylvania, Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9979449915603681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1459759512
• https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3pn8zh5h

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

In Hebrew

Origin

Date

1850?-1899?

Place

India

Summary

Kosher slaughter manual, including meat salting practices (meliḥah) and signs of kosher fowl. Written in an Oriental-Sephardic semicursive script, with captions in an Oriental-Sephardic square script, all in a scribal hand; ruled in lead. Bound in contemporary printed patterned boards; blank folios follow manuscript.

Notes

• 1. f. 3r-v: [Din Sheḥiṭah] -- 2. f. 3v: Din Derusah -- 3. f. 3v: Din Ḥaladah -- 4. f. 4r: Din Ha-geramah -- 5. f. 4r: Din ʻIḳur -- 6. f. 4v: Din Tsaṿʼar -- 7. f. 4v: Shiʻur sakin ha-sheḥiṭah -- 8. f. 5r: Din Bediḳat ha-sakin -- 9. f. 5v: Din Birkhat ha-sheḥiṭah -- 10. f. 5v: Din Me-sukenet -- 11: f. 6r: Din Ha-kisui -- 12. f. 6v: Din ha-Leḥi ṿeha-ṿesheṭ -- 13. f. 7r: Din ha-Gargeret -- 14. f. 7r: Din ha-Lev -- 15. f. 7v: Din ha-kaved -- 16. Din Marah -- 17. Din Ṭeḥol ṿe-kelayot -- 18: Din Shiliya -- 19. f. 8r: Din ha-Daḳin -- 20. Din ha-Ḳurḳevan -- 21. f. 8v: Din Shever be-gaf -- 22. f. 9r: Din derusah -- 23. f. 9v: Din Meligat ha-ʻof -- 24. f. 10v: Simane ʻOf ṭahor.
   
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Extent

1 book (xi, 12 written leaves) : 17 x 10 cm

Support

Paper

Provenance

• Formerly owned by collector Yosef Goldman (Israel Mizrahi).
   
• Sold by Mizrahi Bookstore, 2024.
   

Subjects topical

• Shehitah--19th century--Handbooks, manuals, etc
• Manuscripts, Hebrew--India--19th century--Specimens

Genres

• codices (bound manuscripts)

Licenses

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