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Or 8698

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032-003436742
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Or 8698
Title:
Varios Tractados Compostos Por Differentes Autores collectados por Mattia de Imanuel Aboab
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Oriental Manuscripts
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
218 folios (i+218)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Portuguese
Spanish
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Hebrew
Latin
Start Date:
1703
End Date:
1703
Date Range:
1703
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Era:
CE
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Names:
Aboab, Imanuel, 1555?-1628,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000115687480,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/44528030
Aboab, Imanuel, 1555?-1628,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000115687480,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/44528030
Aguilar, Moses Raphael d'', d 1679,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/29927415
Aguilar, Moses Raphael d'', d 1679,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/29927415
Montalto, Isaac
Montalto, Philotheus Elianus, 1567-1616,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000078367129,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/98733115,
Montalto, Philotheus Elianus, 1567-1616,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000078367129,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/98733115,
Mortera, Saul Levi, Rabbi, of Amsterdam, c 1596-1660
Mortera, Saul Levi, Rabbi, of Amsterdam, c 1596-1660
Naar, Isaac
מונטלטו, יצחק
נהר, יצחק
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 8698

Varios Tractados Compostos Por Differentes Autores collectados por Mattia de Imanuel Aboab

Contents

Summary of Contents: A collection of Spanish and Portuguese essays and responsa on topics of Jewish apologetics and divinity, compiled by Mattatia de Immanuel Aboab; by various authors, including Saul Levi Morteira, Immanuel Aboab, Isaac Naar, [Moses Raphael] Aguilar, Elia Montalto, Isaac Montalto, etc.

Language(s): Portuguese, Spanish, Hebrew

ff. 1r-217r
Title: Varios Tractados Compostos Por Differentes Autores collectados por Mattia de Imanuel Aboab

Partially autograph?

Colophon:
ff. 1r-52v
Author: מורטרה, שאול, הלוי Mortera, Saul Levi, 1596?-1660
Title: Questions and answers
Incipit: Pirgunta primeira

F. 9r: Respuestas 'por o H.H. Saul Levy Morteira' - the name is added by a different hand in different ink.

Two sets of questions. ff. 9r-24r: 23 questions followed by answers; ff. 24v-52v: a list of 116 questions.

F. 24r: dated 1640.

Colophon:
ff. 53r-57v
Title: Bible exegesis?
Incipit: Sendo assim que omesias foy prometido da lina.. de David procura Matheos

Incomplete at the beginning

Colophon:
ff. 58r-60v
Title: Levitico capitulo 12:3: nos manda el senhor en el dia el ochauo Sircuncidara carne de su prepucio.

Colophon:
ff. 61r-65v
Title: Sentensa de frey Diogo da Asumsao frade Profeso da Hordem dos capuchos que foy queimado vivo em lisboa no Auto que se fez aos 3: dias do mez de Agosto do Anno 1603

The story of Friar Diogo da Asumsao, Capuchin monk who was sentenced to death by the Inquisition in 1603.

May have been written by Imanuel Aboab himself (see Barnett, p. 214).

Colophon:

References

Barnett, L. D., 'Two Documents of the Inquisition', JQR 15 (1924), pp. 213-239.
ff. 66r-68v
Title: Memorable relacion para confusion de aquellos que niegan la prouidencia diuina en las cozas humanas, como se Ve en este cazo ado la Verdad no pudo dexar de ser notoria y Vista

About the blood libel in Ragusa in 1622.

Colophon:

References

ff. 69r-82v
Author: נהר, יצחק Naar, Isaac
Title: Tratado feito por o Haham e Dor. Ishack Naar
Incipit: Para mostrar que os fundamentos da ｢Christi｣andade...

Ff. 69r-69v: Prologue by Isaac Naar by a different hand.

With some Hebrew words interspersed.

Colophon:

References

ff. 83r-93v
Author: מונטלטו, אליהו Montalto, Philotheus Elianus, -1616
Title: Declaracao do Cap. 53: de Izaias feito por D.or Eliau Montalto
Incipit: Para mostrar que os fundamentos da ｢Christi｣andade...
Colophon:

References

ff. 93v-97v
Author: מונטלטו, יצחק Montalto, Isaac
Title: Breue declaracao do Capitulo 53: de Isayas composto por o Haham Ishack Montalto
Incipit: No prinsipio do presedente tratado... o Cap. 53: de Isayas composto por meus ... Pay

Colophon:

References

ff. p98r-121v
Author: מורטרה, שאול, הלוי Mortera, Saul Levi, 1596?-1660
Title: Respuesta a las objectiones con que el sinense insultante calumnia al Talmud, compuesto por el muy Docto senor Haham Saul Levy Mortera en Amsterdam anno 5406

Ff. 120v-121v: index.

Colophon:

References

ff. 122r-137v
Author: מונטלטו, אליהו Montalto, Philotheus Elianus, -1616
Title: Segunda Parte do Cap. 53: de Esayas
Colophon:

References

ff. 138r-147v
Author: מונטלטו, אליהו Montalto, Philotheus Elianus, -1616
Title: Four letters by Elianus Montalto to Pedro Rodrigues and his wife Isabella da Fosnseca

In his letters, Elianus Montalto is urging his relatives to return to Judaism.

Dated respectively: Venice, 15 August 5371; 6 September 5372; Venice, 28 December 5372; Venice, 8 May 5372.

In Portuguese.

Colophon:

References

ff. 148r-159r
Author: אבוהב, עמנואל Aboab, Imanuel, 1555-1628
Title: Carta que escriuio de leuante el Ilustrisimo imo Senor Haham Imanuel Aboab a un Amigo suyo a la Bastida en Francia...

An epistle written by Imanuel Aboab to a friend at La Bastide in France.

In Spanish.

Colophon:

References

ff. 159v-160r
Title: Carta que escriuio el Inquizidor Don Bartolomeo Marques mirezo ynbio a la Marqueza de Monte Rey

A copy of the letter of the Inquisitor Moscoso.

ff. 160v-169r
Title: Aeternidade da ley de Mosseh, etc.

ff. 170r-176v
Title: Conforme a Tradicao q｢ue｣ ha em Israel, Criou Deos B. rio Ceo, alua...

Extracts?

Colophon:

References

ff. 177r-179v
Author: אגילאר, משה רפאל Aguilar, Moses Raphael d', -1679
Title: Discurco sobre a significacao das letras Hebraicas

Colophon:

References

Goldfarb, José Luiz, 'Tradato da imortalidade da alma e Discurso sobre a significacao das letras hebraicas: Análise de dois documentos judaicos seiscentistas' AFHIC 2004, pp. 249-256 (http://www.ghtc.usp.br/server/AFHIC3/Trabalhos/33-Jose-Luiz-Goldfarb.pdf).
ff. 180r-183v
Author: אגילאר, משה רפאל Aguilar, Moses Raphael d', -1679
Title: Preposta da Iesiba de Veneza Respondido por o H. Aquilar...

Colophon:
ff. 184r-213v
Title: Declaracoes que dey en Ishack a Matatya Aboab nos annos de 5454: 5455: e 5456: qui por me parecerem...

Colophon:

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 18th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper with laid lines and chain lines, watermark: crown in shield in a medallion (e.g. ff. 183-184).
Extent: 218 folios (i+218)
Dimensions (leaf): 195 × 150 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Lacunae between ff. 52v and 53r.

Collation

Catchword in most pages in certain sections of the volume (e.g. ff. 66v-120v), in others there is no catchword (e.g. ff. 184r-213v).

Condition

Usage stains.

Layout

Columns:1

Layout is not uniform.

Hand(s)

Latin cursive scripts and Hebrew square script of the early 18th century. At least two hands.

Binding

Post-1600, quarter-bound.

Title on spine: 'Varios Tractados. Portuguese & Spanish. Brit. Mus. Oriental 8698'.

History

Origin: 1703

Provenance and Acquisition

Ownership note on f. 2r) by the son of the compiler, Mattatia de Imanuel Aboab, Isaac da Mattatia, addressed to his son David Aboab Curiel never to sell or to lend the volume; his signature e.g. on ff. 170r, 171r.

Ownership inscription on f. 217r: 'isto he de Ishac de matatia aboab em 7 de Elul anno 5463 a criasao do Universo'.

Acquisition note on front flyleaf (i)r: 'Bought of Rev. J. Gomes de Mesquita. 7 Mar. 1921.'; date of accession 16 May 1921.

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

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_8698 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

    Roth, Cecil, 'Immanuel Aboab's Proselytization of the Marranos. From an Unpublished Letter', JQR 23 (1932), pp. 121-162.

Funding of Cataloguing

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