Hebräische Handschriften
Item
Country
DE
Name of institution (English)
University Library Johann Christian Senckenberg
Name of institution (official language of the state)
Language of name of institution
deu
Contact information: postal address
Bockenheimer Landstr. 134-138, 60325 Frankfurt am Main
Contact information: phone number
0049 06939205
0049 79839205
Contact information: web address
https://www.goethe-university-frankfurt.de/en?locale=en
Contact information: email
information@ub.uni-frankfurt.de
Reference number
Ms. hebr.
Fragm. hebr.
Type of reference number
Archival reference number
Title (English)
Hebrew Manuscripts
Title (official language of the state)
Hebräische Handschriften
Language of title
deu
Creator / accumulator
Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Date note
13th century/20th century
Language(s)
ara
deu
dut
fra
heb
ita
lat
rus
spa
yid
Extent
431 storage units
Type of material
Textual Material
Scope and content
The Hebräische Handschriften of the University Library Johann Christian Senckenberg comprises 431 Hebrew manuscripts, including fragments, bibles, biblical and Talmudic commentaries, important halakhic, liturgical, kabbalistic, philosophical, and scientific manuscripts, as well as poetry and memoirs of Jewish communities. The collection includes two manuscripts produced in 15th-century Spain. One is a Perush Mishle copied in the yeshivah of Toledo in 1477 (Ms. hebr. oct. 56). It was copied by no less than eight scribes and includes a commentary on Proverbs by Ha-Meiri, presumably copied by students of the yeshivah (see Reigler 1997, 392-393). The other is a copy of Nissim ben Reuben Gerondi's Perush ha-Ran produced in Salamanca, in 1462 (Ms. hebr. oct. 112).
This collection also includes the manuscript Memoirs of Glikl von Hameln (1646-1724) from 1681 to 1719 (Ms. hebr. oct. 2), which includes an account of the Sabbatean movement in Hamburg, as well as information on the establishment of the Portuguese Jews in the city Hamburg and their connections with other communities in the Italian Peninsula, Northwestern Europe and the Ottoman Empire. This manuscript is described in the digital collection Key Documents of German-Jewish History.
This collection also includes the manuscript Memoirs of Glikl von Hameln (1646-1724) from 1681 to 1719 (Ms. hebr. oct. 2), which includes an account of the Sabbatean movement in Hamburg, as well as information on the establishment of the Portuguese Jews in the city Hamburg and their connections with other communities in the Italian Peninsula, Northwestern Europe and the Ottoman Empire. This manuscript is described in the digital collection Key Documents of German-Jewish History.
Archival history
The greatest part of the Hebrew manuscripts of the University Library Johann Christian Senckenberg is originally from the collection of Rabbi Abraham Merzbacher (1812-1885). These manuscripts were acquired in 1903, with the financial support of Jewish philanthropists in Frankfurt. Another part of this collection is composed of manuscripts that belonged to Rabbi Eljakim Carmoly (1802-1875). Some were especially created for members of the Rothschild family and later donated to the University Library.
Administrative / Biographical history
When the University of Frankfurt am Main was founded in 1914, it did not have its own library. Instead, the University was served by five existing Frankfurt libraries: Senckenbergische Bibliothek, Rothschildsche Bibliothek, Kunstgewerbebibliothek and Zentralbibliothek des Städtischen Krankenhauses. In 1945, these libraries were merged to form the Stadt- und Universitätsbibliothek Frankfurt am Main, with the exception of the Senckenberg Bibliothek, which remained an independent institution. Finally, in 2005, the Stadt-und Universitätsbibliothek Frankfurt am Main (StUB) and the Senckenberg Library (SeB) were joined and gave origin to the Central Library of the University of Frankfurt am Main under the name of Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg.
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Access points: persons, families
Access points: subject terms
System of arrangement
The items are organised under the general rules of library management.
Access, restrictions
Digital copies of numerous manuscripts are avaliable online:
Links to finding aids
Author of the description
Kevin Soares, 2022
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