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

Title

Apocryphal Books of Maccabees and Tobit and Sefer ha-Shorashim.
[קובץ של ספרים-חיצונים בתנ"ך וספר על שורשי לשון הקודש]

Authors

• Satanow, Isaac, 1732-1804
  סטנוב, יצחק
• Satanow, Isaac, 1732-1804
  סטנוב, יצחק

Other related names

• Aub, Abraham, former owner
• Ḥevrat ḥinukh neʻarim (Berlin, Germany), associated name (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2008064335)
  חברת חנוך נערים (בערלין)

Call number

CAJS Rar Ms 783
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9979448517203681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1533959219
• https://digitalcollections.library.upenn.edu/items/3bd1f9c3-9fc0-4d53-aa57-b19ec8ccc8d7

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Hebrew; Books of Maccabees survive originally from Greek, and Tobit originally Aramaic (these translations to Hebrew likely employed Sebastian Münster's Hebrew and Martin Luther's German translations of these books)

Origin

Date

1770?-1787

Place

Berlin, Germany?

Summary

Miscellany of manuscript works written for publication related to the printing activities of the Berlin Jüdischer Freyschule (sometimes referred to by the Hebrew name of Ḥevrat ḥinukh neʻarim, founded by Daniel Itzig and David Friedländer in 1778) ; works written for print in this manuscript are Satanow's edited translations of the Apocryphal books of Maccabees (I and II) and Tobit, which is followed by his manuscript for publication of his Sefer ha-Shorashim, ha-mekhuneh Śefat emet (Berlin : Ḥevrat ḥinukh neʻarim/Im Verlag der Jüdischer Freyschule, 1787), in this manuscript Biblical verses referenced written in shorthand, with chapter and verse citation.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   
• 1. f.2r-18v: [I-II Maccabees, translated to Hebrew] -- 2. f.19r-21v: [Book of Tobit, translated to Hebrew] -- f.23r-59v: [Work on Hebrew roots and grammatical radicals].
   

Extent

60 leaves : 340 x 212 (310 x 183) mm bound to 350 x 222 mm

Foliation

Paper, 60; 1-60; modern foliation in pencil, 1-60, lower left recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Modern vinyl; modern paste-downs.

Layout

Written in columns of 40-42 long lines (Biblical portion) and two columns, with two vertical bounding lines containing root words.

Script

Written in a Ashkenazic cursive script (texts) and an Ashkenazic square script (paragraph captions; root words; folio running titles), possibly in the hand of Isaac Satanow (otherwise in a scribal hand rendering Satanow's work).

Provenance

• Sold by Taj Art (Jerusalem), Auction 14 (9 July 2024) lot 189.
   

Subjects topical

• Hebrew language--Lexicography
• Manuscripts, Hebrew--Germany--Berlin--18th century--Specimens

Genres

• manuscripts for publication
• Manuscripts, European
• codices (bound manuscripts)
• Manuscripts

Licenses

• Text

  These images and the content of Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts CAJS Rar Ms 783: Apocryphal Books of Maccabees and Tobit and Sefer ha-Shorashim. are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/.

  URL

  http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

• Text

  Metadata is ©2026 University of Pennsylvania Libraries and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License version 4.0 (CC-BY-4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode. For a description of the terms of use see the Creative Commons Deed https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.

  URL

  https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode

Table of contents

• fol. 2r — [I-II Maccabees, translated to Hebrew]
• fol. 19r — [Book of Tobit, translated to Hebrew]
• fol. 23r — [Work on Hebrew roots and grammatical radicals]