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Title

Ahavat yesharim, O, Rabi ʻAḳiva :
אהבת ישרים, או, רבי עקיבא

Authors

• Maśmid, Bentsiyon ben Shelomoh
  מתמיד, בנציון

Other related names

• Kaaplander, M. H. 1882-, former owner (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr98002247)

Call number

CAJS Rar Ms 795
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9979495680303681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1547595239
• https://digitalcollections.library.upenn.edu/items/9d3bf700-6f8e-4bff-9b73-0bf3f2fceedd

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Text in Hebrew

Origin

Date

1870?-1890?

Place

Merkinė, Lithuania?

Summary

Drama written by Bentsiyon Maśmid based on the life of Akiba ben Joseph (1st century), composed in verse.

Extent

94 leaves : 22 cm

Support

Paper

Provenance

• Inscribed by the author to "Avraham" (free-end).
   
• Bookplate Ex-Libris Rabbi M.H. Kaaplander (Morris Hoff Kaaplander, rabbi of Adas Kodesch, Wilmington, De., previously in Johnstown, Pa.; born in Šeduva, Lithuania, author of "The Convert : A play in four acts" (Wilmington, 1912)).
   
• Sold by Mizrahi Bookstore (Brooklyn, N.Y.), 2024.
   

Subjects topical

• Akiba ben Joseph,--approximately 50-approximately 132--Drama
• Akiba ben Joseph,--approximately 50-approximately 132--Poetry
• Jewish drama--19th century
• Manuscripts, Hebrew--Lithuania--Merkinė--19th century--Specimens

Genres

• codices (bound manuscripts)
• Drama
• Poetry
• Manuscripts

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