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Or 12350
Title:
Pulmus by Abraham Horowitz
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8 folios (ii+8+i)
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Start Date:
1560
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1599
Date Range:
1560-1599
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CE
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Names:
Gaster, Moses, scholar, linguist and Hakham of the British Sephardic congregation, 1856-1939
Horowitz, Abraham ben Shabbetai Sheftel, fl 16th 17th century
הורביץ, אברהם בן שבתי
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Or 12350

Pulmus by Abraham Horowitz

Contents

Fragment of a polemic in defence of the philosophical writings of Maimonides, and of the study of philosophy in general.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-8v
Author: הורביץ, אברהם בן שבתי Horowitz, Abraham ben Shabbetai Sheftel, active 16th century-17th century (attributed to)
Title: פולמוס
Title: Pulmus
Incipit: לזרעו של אברהם רחמנים ביישנים וגומלי חסדים
Explicit: הוא דברי מינות לפי דבריך והנה אותם ההמונים ששמעו השמועה ביום המ"ל תמהו

Abraham Horowitz wrote the polemic in 5310 AM (1558/1559 CE).

In the manuscript: a critique of "Aharon, the head of the court of Poznan", who opposed Maimonides' Moreh Nevokhim and the study of "external wisdoms" (secular sciences): אם איש כזה ראוי להיות אב ב"ד במדינה בזאת גנאי גדול הוא לכל בני המדינה (f. 8r); ואני מזכור קצת מהם כדי שידעי הכל סכלותו ... בתוך דבריו כיון שנדפס המורה נבוכי' בויניציא מיד בעון זה נגזרה הגזירה ונשרפו כל ספרי התלמוד ברוב איטליא ... (f. 8v); ותמהו על דברי סכלותו ונבלותו הלזה יקרא מהר"ר אהרן אב ב"ד במדינת פוזנא (f. 8v).

The date 5319 is mentioned on f. 2r: ולא כמו שדרש החמור הגדול חותן הסכל הנ"ל בשבת הגדול שנת שי"ט.

Incomplete at the beginning and at the end.

Autograph? with marginal notes by the same hand.

References

Levin, Leonard, Seeing with Both Eyes: Ephraim Luntshitz and the Polish-Jewish Renaissance (Leiden: Brill, 2008), p. 39-44.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 16th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper with laid lines and chain lines; unidentified watermark on ff. 3, 6.
Extent: 8 folios (ii+8+i)
Dimensions (leaf): 204 × 160 mm.
Dimensions (written): 162 × 115 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Collation

No catchword.

Condition

Outer margins are incomplete with loss of text, worm damage, iron gall ink corrosion.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 36

Written lines: 36

Uniform layout.

Marginal notes.

Hand(s)

Ashkenazi semi-cursive script of the 16th century.

Additions:

A paper slip with M. Gaster's note on the identify of the author is attached to f. 1r: 'A kabbalist in Posen to whom a letter from Palestine concerning שברו האר"י ז"ל should be communicated in: Joseph del Merdigo's ... ed. Basel שפ"ט f. 48a. הר"ר יצחק כ"ץ חתן ר' יוסף בצר מק"ק פוזנא of my Ms No. 264 Polemik against a kabbalist Josef in Posen.'.

Binding

Post-1600, dark blue cloth binding. In flap case.

History

Origin: 1560-1599 2nd half of the 16th century (not before 1559)

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 264; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 18 February 1928.

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on the online catalogue of the National Library of Israel and the Catalogue of Hebrew Manuscripts in the Gaster Collection, the British Library, London; preface by Brad Sabin Hill; reproduced from the MS and typescript blue-slips prepared by Jacob Leeven, Joseph Rosenwasser and David Goldstein (London: Hebrew Section. Oriental and India Office Collection, 1996) (unpublished copy is available in the AAS reading room).

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Surrogates

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Bibliography

    Bloch, P., 'Der Streit um den Moreh des Maimonides in Posen', Monatsschrift für Geschichte und Wissenschaft des Judenthums 47 (1903), pp. 153-169, 263-279, 346-347 (http://sammlungen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/cm/periodical/titleinfo/2829768).

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