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Title

Miscellany of works associated with the Berlin Jewish enlightenment
[קובץ של ספרים מהשכלה של ברלין]

Authors

• Gershon ben Solomon, of Arles, active 13th century
  גרשון בן שלמה
• Harizi, Judah ben Solomon, active 12th century-13th century
  חריזי, יהודה בן שלמה
• Immanuel ben Solomon, approximately 1265-approximately 1330
  עמנואל בן שלמה

Other related names

• Wolf, Simon ben Koppel, of Sandersleben, active 18th century, scribe
  וואלף, שמעון בן קאפל,
• Zacuto, Moses ben Mordecai, approximately 1620-1697, attributed name
  זכות, משה,
• Wessely, Naphtali Herz, 1725-1805, writer of preface (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82235504)
  וויזל, נפתלי הערץ.
• Weyl, Meyer Simon, 1744-1826, associated name (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2023087410)
  וייל, מאיר בן שמחה.
• Ḥevrat ḥinukh neʻarim (Berlin, Germany), associated name (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2008064335)
  חברת חנוך נערים (בערלין)

Call number

CAJS Rar Ms 786
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9979448517103681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1535209701
• https://digitalcollections.library.upenn.edu/items/0065cd74-2c83-4e4d-adc8-eb6b108cd0da

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Date

after 1788?-1799?

Place

Berlin, Germany?

Summary

Miscellany of works in manuscript, copied for publication and associated with the enlightenment publication of the Berlin Jüdische Freischule (Ḥevrat ḥinukh neʻarim in Hebrew) and founder Daniel Itzig; the title page (f. 1r) and colophon of the first work honor "Meʼir", likely Meyer Simon Weyl, then ministering the Berlin Beth-Din as a dayan and lecturer in the Jüdische Freischule (and later Chief Rabbi of Berlin).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   
• 1. f.2r-104v: Sefer Shaʻar ha-shamayim / Gershon ben Solomon of Arles -- 2. f.105v-106r: Igeret Leshon ha-zahav / Judah ben Solomon Harizi -- 3. f. 109r: Eśa levavi na el kapayim / Moses Zacuto (attributed) -- 4. f.110r-112v: [Bible, Tobit, in Hebrew] -- 5. f. 115r-130v: Maḥbarot (Selections) / Immanuel ben Solomon of Rome -- 6. f. 133r-138v: Toledot Zoḳraṭes [Hebrew account of the Trial of Socrates, with introduction by Naphtali Herz Wessely] -- 7. f.141r-155v: Ḳunṭres Ḥeftsi bah.
   

Extent

155 leaves : 210 x 170 (160 x 123) mm bound to 220 x 174 mm

Foliation

Paper, 155; 1-155; contemporary foliation in ink, 1-154, upper left recto; modern foliation in pencil, 1-155, lower left recto (references in this record are only to modern foliation).

Support

Paper

Binding

Modern buckram; book block separated from spine.

Layout

Written in columns of 30-32 long lines (Sefer Shaʻar ha-shamayim); two columns, aligned right, of poetry (f. 109r); portions of Immanuel's sonnets written in six columns (such as f. 121r); first and last books blind-ruled around columns (f. 2r-104v, and 141r-155v).

Script

Written in a Ashkenazic cursive scripts in varied hands; the first work written in the hand of Simon ben Koppel Wolf of Sandersleben (writing in Berlin).

Provenance

• Sold by Taj Art (Jerusalem), Auction 14 (9 July 2024) lot 190.
   

Subjects topical

• Nathan ben Jehiel,--of Rome,--1035-approximately 1110--ʻArukh--Commentaries
• Socrates
• Jewish philosophy--Texts
• Manuscripts, Hebrew--Germany--Berlin--18th century--Specimens
• Piyutim
• Jewish religious education--Germany--Berlin--18th century

Genres

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

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 2r — Sefer Shaʻar ha-shamayim / Gershon ben Solomon of Arles
• fol. 105v — Igeret Leshon ha-zahav / Judah ben Solomon Harizi
• fol. 109r — Eśa levavi na el kapayim / Moses Zacuto (attributed)
• fol. 110r — [Bible, Tobit, in Hebrew]
• fol. 115r — Maḥbarot (Selections) / Immanuel ben Solomon of Rome
• fol. 133r — Toledot Zoḳraṭes [Hebrew account of the Trial of Socrates, with introduction by Naphtali Herz Wessely]
• fol. 141r — Ḳunṭres Ḥeftsi bah.