Alḥarizi, Yehudah ben Shelomoh (1165-1235)
This elegant illuminated copy of the Sefer Moreh Nevukhim (Guide to the Perplexed) by Moses Maimonides was produced in Christian Spain in 1292. It is a copy of the Hebrew translation of the work made in 1204 by Samuel ben Judah Ibn Tibbon (1150-1230). The manuscript arrived in Italy either after the Jewish persecutions of 1391 or the ensuing expulsion of the Jews from the Iberian peninsula in 1492. It was in the possession of the renowned Bolognese Sforno family before reappearing in the early 17th century in the hands of the Italian Jewish apostate and inquisitor Renato da Modena. After more than a century, the manuscript reappeared in the possession of Johann Caspar Ulrich (1705-1768) a Protestant theologian, who donated it in 1762 to the Bibliotheca Ecclesia Carolina, the chapter library of the reformed Grossmünster church of Zurich. In 1835, when the chapter was dissolved, the books and manuscripts of the chapter library became part of the new Cantonal Library in Zurich. Finally in 1917, the holdings of this library, among others, formed the new Zentralbibliothek, where the manuscript still remains today.
Online Since: 03/19/2020
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- Alḥarizi, Yehudah ben Shelomoh (Translator) | Ibn Tibon, Mosheh ben Shemuʾel (Translator) | Maimonides, Moses (Author) | Ulrich, Johann Caspar (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description
This 14th and 15th century Askhenazi miscellany is a vademecum for personal use, destined to a scholar and composed mainly of halakhic material on ritual slaughtering, reflecting the decisions of the most important rabbinical authorities from 13th to 15th century Ashkenaz. There are also numerous treatises and tables on the Jewish and Christian calendars scattered throughout the manuscript. In addition, there is a selection of liturgical and mystical commentaries, as well as excerpts of ethical, Midrashic and Talmudic literature. The margins of the manuscript are filled with small notes and texts on medical recipes and magical incantations for various occasions in Hebrew and in Old West Yiddish.
Online Since: 12/12/2019
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- Alḥarizi, Yehudah ben Shelomoh (Author) | Avrāhām ben Dāwīd aus Posquières (Author) | Barukh ben Yitsḥaḳ (Author) | Bĕk̲ôr Šôr, Yôsēf (Author) | El'āzar Ben-Yehûdā (Author) | Heidenheim, Moritz (Former possessor) | Ibn-Gabirol, Shelomoh Ben-Yehudah (Author) | Menahem ben Jacob of Worms (Author) | Meʾir ben Barukh, Rothenburg (Author) | Mosheh ben Yaʿaḳov, mi-Ḳutsi (Author) | Perets ben Elijah, von Corbeil (Author) | Seʿadyah, Gaʾon (Author) | Simcha ben Samuel, aus Vitry (Author) | Yehudah ben Shemuʾel, he-Ḥasid (Author) | Yitsḥaḳ ben Mosheh (Author) | Yitsḥaḳ Ben-Yosef, Corbeil (Author) Found in: Standard description