Several Purim parodies copied by Daniel ben Solomon Mendosa. Amsterdam, 18th century
Manuscript ID:
MS 905
Place:
Germany
Date:
not after 1624
Description:
ink and water color on paper, 137 leaves (20.3 x 16.4 cm.); Ashkenazi cursive Hebrew script
Copyist:
(a) Mordecai Samuel Kaldin (?)
Former Owner:
anonymous marks dated 1624 and 1644
Subject:
Calendar; Linguistics and philology; Midrash
English Text:
This manuscript contains 4 separate sections: (a) Sefer Evronot, a work dealing with calculating the leap year along with reckoning holidays, seasons, and their interpretation. This section has a large number of often full-page illustrations, many with floral and faunal motifs, including very handsome full-page depictions of the zodiac, as well as the expected charts, tables, and calculating wheels;
(b) a Hebrew-Yiddish glossary on the Pentateuch and Song of Songs;
(c) a section composed of aggadah headed “Arakh Adam”;
(d) a Hebrew-Yiddish glossary of Meir ben Jacob’s “Akdamut Milin.”
Hebrew / Paper / 19,9 x 15,9 cm. / [2] + 33 pp. (first 1. and last 4 ll. blank) / Sephardic cursive writing with square headings / Title written partly in square characters in ornamental frame / Some annotations in different Sephardic cursive hand on the titlepage / Catchwords at the end of each page.
Manuscript Link:
https://huc.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1009075494