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Or 10755

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032-003472566
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Or 10755
Title:
Collection of autograph letters
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
67 folios (+fillers)
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Languages:
French
German
Hebrew
Yiddish
Scripts:
Hebrew
Latin
Start Date:
1806
End Date:
1810
Date Range:
1806-1810
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
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Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Cerf Berr, Baruch
Gaster, Moses, scholar, linguist and Hakham of the British Sephardic congregation, 1856-1939
Moch Jacob (Jacques)
Sinzheim, Joseph David ben Isaac, 1745-1812,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000066511293,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/12440071
Sinzheim, Joseph David ben Isaac, 1745-1812,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000066511293,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/12440071
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 10755

Collection of autograph letters

Contents

A collection of 36 documents (with one exception all autograph letters).

Language(s): Yiddish, German, Hebrew, French

ff. 1r-90
Title: אגרות שליח האגענויא אל הסנהדרין בפריס

Gaster's description in his Handlist: " "מכתבי שליח האגענויא אל הסנהדרין בפאריס" (Hagenau) Autograph reports of the delegate of Hagenau (to the Sanhedrin of Paris) to his community & also autograph letters of Beer ... & other Rabbi-delegates - Proclamation of 1810 in Aurich. (b) note on event in ... - unique and extreme value - ... authentic record of the inner doings at the Sanhedrin." Most of the letters addressed to Jacob Moch, Jacob Abraham Moch, or Jacques Moch of Hagenau. Also mentioned Gougenheim and Coblence.

Ff. 52-53: written by Jacob Moch addressed to Baruch Cerf-Berr(?). Letters are dated 1806-1810.

The documents in Yiddish are in the Western Yiddish dialect.

For documents on the Jewish community of Hagenau, see also London, British Library, Or 12333.

Colophon:
ff. 1r-2v
Title: Letter addressed to Monsieur Jacob Moch, Hagenau
Language(s): Yiddish, French

Dated 29 July 1806.

Signed: סערף זעך (Cerf Berr?).

ff. 3r-4v
Title: Letter
Language(s): Yiddish

Dated 11 July 1806, Paris.

Signed: יוסף.

ff. 5r-6v
Title: Letter addressed to Monsieur Jacques Moch, Hagenau
Language(s): Yiddish, French

Dated 14 August(?) 1806.

Signed: יוסף.

ff. 7r-8v
Language(s): Yiddish, French
Title: Letter addressed to Monsieur Jacob Moch, Hagenau

Dated 19 July 1806.

ff. 9r-10v
Title: Letter

Dated 24 July 1806, Paris.

Signed: יוסף, mentions רק חנחאל.

ff. 11r-11v
Language(s): Yiddish, French
Title: Letter addressed to Gougenheim, Moch & Coblence, Hagenau.

Dated 24 July 1806, Paris.

Signed: יוסף, mentions רק חנחאל.

f. 12v
Title: Letter
Language(s): French

Dated 23 July 1806.

ff. 13r-16v
Title: Letter
Language(s): Yiddish

Dated 28 July (1806).

Signed: יוסף.

ff. 17r-18v
Title: Letter
Language(s): Yiddish

Dated 29 July 1806, Paris.

Signed: יוסף

.

ff. 19r-20v
Title: Letter addressed to Monsieur Jacques Moch, Hagenau
Language(s): Yiddish, French

Dated 9 August 1806, Paris.

Signed: יוסף.

ff. 21r-22v
Title: Letter
Language(s): Yiddish

Dated 7 August 1806, Paris.

ff. 23r-24v
Title: Letter addressed to Moch, Gougenheim and Coblence, Hagenau
Language(s): Yiddish, French

Dated 14 August 1806, Paris.

ff. 25r-26v
Title: Letter addressed to Jacob Moch, Gougenheim and Coblence, Hagenau
Language(s): Yiddish, French

Dated 18 August 1806, Paris.

ff. 27r-28v
Title: Letter addressed to Moch, Gougenheim and Coblence, Hagenau
Language(s): Yiddish, French

Dated 21 August 1806, Paris.

Signed: יוסף

ff. 29r-30v
Title: Letter addressed to Moch, Gougenheim and Coblence, Hagenau
Language(s): Yiddish, French

Dated 2 September 1806, Paris.

ff. 31r-12v
Title: Letter addressed to Moch, Gougenheim and Coblence, Hagenau
Language(s): Yiddish, French

Dated 7 September 1806, Paris.

Signed by 6 people, hardly legible signatures: הירץ בלאך, אפרים פיקארד... ?

ff. 33r-34v
Title: Letter addressed to Moch, Gougenheim and Coblence, Hagenau
Language(s): Yiddish, French

Dated 12 September 1806.

Signed by at least two people, one of them is Yosef.

ff. 35r-36v
Title: Letter addressed to Moch, Gougenheim and Coblence, Hagenau
Language(s): Yiddish, French

Dated 18 September 1806, Paris.

Signed: יוסף.

ff. 37r-38v
Title: Letter addressed to Monsieur Jacques Moch, Hagenau
Language(s): Yiddish, French

Dated 3 October 1806.

Signed: יוסף.

ff. 39r-40v
Title: Letter addressed to Monsieur J. Moch, Hagenau
Language(s): Yiddish

Dated 14 October 1806.

ff. 41r-42v
Title: Letter addressed to Monsieur Jacques Moch, Hagenau
Language(s): Yiddish, French

Dated 8 February 1807.

ff. 43r-44v
Title: Letter addressed to Monsieur Jacob Abraham Moch, Hagenau
Language(s): Yiddish

Dated 22 February 1807.

ff. 45r-45v
Title: Two envelopes
Language(s): Yiddish

One of the envelopes has remains of a red seal at the back.

f. 46r
Title: List of rabbis
ff. 47r-48v
Title: Letter addressed to Monsieur Jacques Moch, Hagenau
Language(s): Yiddish

ff. 49r-50v
Author: Sinzheim, Joseph David ben Isaac, 1745-1812 זינצהיים, יוסף דוד
Title: Letter addressed to Monsieur Jacob Moch, Hagenau
Language(s): Yiddish

Dated Paris, 16 Elul 5568 (1808 CE).

Signed by Joseph David Sinzheim on f.49r. On the verso side, letter by another hand.

ff. 51r-51v
Author: Sinzheim, Joseph David ben Isaac, 1745-1812 זינצהיים, יוסף דוד
Title: Letter
Language(s): Yiddish

Dated Paris, 27 Kislev 5567(?).

Signed by Joseph David Sinzheim.

ff. 52r-53v
Author: Moch Jacob (Jacques)
Title: Letter addressed to Baruch Cerf Behr and comp., Strasbourg
Language(s): French

Dated Paris, Hagenau.

From left to right: starts on f. 53v and finishes on 53r.

f. 54r
Author: Cerf Berr, Baruch
Title: Note
Language(s): French

Attached to letter (f.53), signed by Baruch Cerf Berr, Strasbourg.

ff. 55r-56v
Title: Letter
Language(s): Yiddish

Dated 23(?) Menahem (=Av) 5566 (?)

ff. 57r-58v
Title: Letter addressed to Monsieur Jacob Moch, Hagenau
Language(s): Yiddish, French

Dated 24 Menahem (=Av) 5566 (?), Paris.

f. 59r
Title: Letter
Language(s): Yiddish

Dated Elul 5566(?).

ff. 60r-61v
Title: Letter addressed to Monsieur Jacques Moch, Hagenau
Language(s): Yiddish, French

Dated 24 Menahem (=Av) 5566 (?), Paris.

ff. 62r-62v
Title: Letter addressed to ... Moch
Language(s): Yiddish

Dated 24 Menahem (=Av) 5566 (?).

f. 63r
Title: Liturgical fragment

Beginning with El male raḥamim: מנוחה נכונה כנפי השכינה במעלות קדושים.

f. 63v
Title: List of dates
f. 64r
Title: Historical accounts
Language(s): Yiddish

Two entries on a historical event mentioning Leopold II and Frankfurt am Main היום יום שבת קודש ר"ח מרחשוון ... הקיום החסיד לעפאלדאס השני ... פראקפורט דמיין ולקח לאושפיזה הבית הגדול הנקרא ... 1790.

ff. 65r-65v
Title: Document
Language(s): Yiddish, French

Regarding the poor-relief fund of Hagenau: דער קא... דער ארמענקאססע דק"ק האגענויא. Signed by several people, among others: Daniel Weiss, J.(?) Coblenz, G.(?) Coblenz, Lazare Moch, etc.

Folded.

f. 66r
Title: Document
Language(s): German

Dated 4 April 1810;

Blue paper sheet, folded.

ff. 67r-67v
Title: Printed proclamation.
Language(s): German

Announcing the marriage of Napoleon I (Napoleon Bonaparte) and Maria Louisa of Austria beginning: "Auf Befehl Sr Majestät des Königs wird hiedurch bekannt gemacht, dass am 31sten vorigen Monats di Civil=Vermahlung Sr Majestat ... NAPOLEON mit der Erzherzogin Maria Louisa von Oesterreich, und am 1sten dieses Monats die kirchlichen Einsengung derselben zu Paris erfolget sen." Dated 2 April 1810, Aurich. Signed Königl. ... Konsistorium

Physical Description

Paper and parchment codex of the 19th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper leaves and one parchment leaf. Several of the paper leaves are blue.
Extent: 67 folios (+fillers)
Dimensions (leaf): 293 × 235 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Collation

Leaves on guards.

Condition

Usage stains, liquid damage, mould.

Layout

Columns:1

Red seal on f. 6v.

Different types and sizes of paper leaves.

Given dimensions are those of the scrapbook.

Hand(s)

Ashkenazi cursive and square scripts and Latin scripts of the 19th century.

Binding

Documents collected in a Scrapbook with blue cotton cover. Back cover in golder letters: 'Scraps'. Manufacturer's stamp in the inner back cover: 'W. Straker...'.

Accompanying Material

History

Origin: 1806-1810

Provenance and Acquisition

M. Gaster's note on the inner front cover in pencil: 'These autograph letters have been sold to me by J. Lipschitz on the 28th of April 903 (17 Omer 63). He had bought them in Hagenau some time during the year 1902. M.G.'

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 1200; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 1 April 1926.

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on the online catalogue of the National Library of Israel.

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_10755 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

    Prager, Leonard and Brad Sabin Hill, "Yiddish manuscripts in the British Library"British Library Journal.(1995): pp. 90-91.

Funding of Cataloguing

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