Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library, MS General 236

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DS ID:

DS19147

Shelfmark:

MS General 236

Title:

Letters relating to the Nehemiah Hiyya Hayon controversy [manuscript

Letters

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

Late 17th century - 1729.

seventeenth century (dates CE) AAT

eighteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

heb

Hebrew WIKIDATA

Note:

Library buckram binding.
Shelfmark: MS General 236
Manuscript in Hebrew and Italian, 174 leaves, 210 x 150 mm., various sizes, written in various Italian cursive and semi-cursive Hebrew scripts, early foliation in Hebrew letters, modern foliation in pencil with errors.
Ms. includes the following published pamphets: 1. Sefer Shalhevet Yah (43r-62v) 2. Moda'a Rabba (63r-72v) 3. TokhhatMegullah (99r-104v) 4. Shever Posheim.
Other portions of note include 1. A letter regarding a woman of loose virtue (11r-15v) 2. A lits of polemical works based on Jonathan Eibeschutz' Luhot ha-Edut (174r)
Sotheby's New York Important Judaica sale, December 19, 2012, lot 121.
Sotheby's New York Important Hebrew Manuscripts from the Montefiore Endowment, October 27-28, 2012, lot 351.
From the library of Solomon Halberstam (shelf no. 32)
From the Montefiore Library (shelf no. 469)

Keyword:

Sabbathaians

Messiah--Judaism

Shabbethai Tzevi, 1626-1676

Ḥayon, Nehemiah Ḥiyya ben Moses, -approximately 1730

Institutional Record:

https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/10141985

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/ldpd_15403932_000/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library