Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library, MS X893 K13

Metadata

DS ID:

DS19806

Shelfmark:

MS X893 K13

Title:

Alef bet shel Rabi ʻAḳiva / אלף בית של רבי עקיבא

Hebrew texts

Author:

David ben Judah, he-Ḥasid, approximately 1240-approximately 1320 / דוד בן יהודה, החסיד, approximately 1240-approximately 1320

David ben Judah, he-Ḥasid WIKIDATA

Place:

S.l.

undetermined TGN

Date:

16--

seventeenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Vocalized Hebrew

Hebrew WIKIDATA

Material:

ill., paper

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: Leaf 174a : ill., paper ; 21 x 17 cm

Note:

Our text is parallel to Ms. Sassoon 290, the text that published by M. Idel, ʻAle Sefer, 10, p. 28-31.
Shelfmark: MS X893 K13
An additional leaf at the beginning of the Ms. relates two disasters which afflicted Thessaloniki in May 14, 1734. There was a terrible conflagration in town and a consequent loss of money.
Manuscript written on paper in Oriental script.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Hebrew

Seventeenth century

Jews

Greece--Thessalonikē

Eighteenth century

Cabala

Early works

Institutional Record:

https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/7633508

Holding Institution:

Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library