אוסף כתבי היד של יד בן־צבי (Yad Ben-Zvi Collection of Manuscripts)
Item
Nota de estado
Finalizado
Country
IL
Name of institution (English)
Yad Yitzhak Ben-Zvi Institute
Name of institution (official language of the state)
Language of name of institution
heb
Contact information: postal address
14 Ibn Gvirol, Rehavia, Jerusalem, 9107601
Contact information: phone number
00972 02-5398888
Contact information: web address
Contact information: email
ybz@ybz.org.il
Title (English)
Yad Ben-Zvi Collection of Manuscripts
Title (official language of the state)
אוסף כתבי היד של יד בן־צבי (Yad Ben-Zvi Collection of Manuscripts)
Language of title
heb
Creator / accumulator
Yad Ben-Zvi Institute
Date note
14th century/21th century
Language(s)
heb
lad
por
spa
others
Extent
c. 4,000 storage units
Type of material
Textual Material
Scope and content
The Yad Ben-Zvi Collection holds over 3,600 manuscripts and more than 470 inscriptions from all over the Jewish World. Aside from Hebrew, it contains manuscripts in several languages, such as Jewish-Arabic, Jewish-Persian, Ladino, and Yiddish. Its holdings cover a wide range of primarily religious subjects, including, for instance, works on the Talmud, midrash, kaballah, responsa, and many more.
The collection includes a 15th-century Sidur (Ms. 2048) donated by the Jewish community of Aleppo in 1957. This prayer book was written in Sephardi semi-cursive and illuminated in Lisbon, presumably between 1484 and 1496, and is part of a group of several manuscripts associated with a workshop operating in the Portuguese capital city at the end of the 15th century until the date of the Expulsion (Avrin, 1998).
The manuscript Pingas Pisa (Ms. 4009) contains loose pages, written in Portuguese, of the first record book of the Jewish community of Pisa (Libro Vecchio della Nazione Ebrea di Pisa). The record book was already in use in 1591 and continued receiving entries until the end of the 1730s.
There is also a parchment folder containing two ascamot books of the Jewish nation of Livorno. The first 45 ascamot of the first book are written in Portuguese and derive from reviews between 1597 and 1655. The following 51 ascamot were written in Portuguese and Spanish between 1655 and 1677. The second book includes the text of the public statement compiled by the nation's rabbis and government against the accusation from Rabbi Jacob Sasportas. Toaff (1990) published the transcription of some excerpts of the statement.
The collection includes a 15th-century Sidur (Ms. 2048) donated by the Jewish community of Aleppo in 1957. This prayer book was written in Sephardi semi-cursive and illuminated in Lisbon, presumably between 1484 and 1496, and is part of a group of several manuscripts associated with a workshop operating in the Portuguese capital city at the end of the 15th century until the date of the Expulsion (Avrin, 1998).
The manuscript Pingas Pisa (Ms. 4009) contains loose pages, written in Portuguese, of the first record book of the Jewish community of Pisa (Libro Vecchio della Nazione Ebrea di Pisa). The record book was already in use in 1591 and continued receiving entries until the end of the 1730s.
There is also a parchment folder containing two ascamot books of the Jewish nation of Livorno. The first 45 ascamot of the first book are written in Portuguese and derive from reviews between 1597 and 1655. The following 51 ascamot were written in Portuguese and Spanish between 1655 and 1677. The second book includes the text of the public statement compiled by the nation's rabbis and government against the accusation from Rabbi Jacob Sasportas. Toaff (1990) published the transcription of some excerpts of the statement.
Archival history
In 2014, the Yad Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, in cooperation with the National Library of Israel, initiated a project of digitization of its manuscripts. The process of photographing/scanning and cataloguing its holdings was completed in 2017.
Administrative / Biographical history
Yad Yitzhak Ben-Zvi bears the name of the second president of the State of Israel. It is a research, cultural, and educational institution operating according to a particular law of the Knesset from 1969. The main functions of the institution are the production and dissemination of research on Israeli communities in the East and on the Land of Israel, focusing also on the study of Jerusalem.
The Yad Yitzhak Ben-Zvi complex comprises a national heritage site, research institutes, a library, a photo archive, a book publishing house, and the School of Jerusalem Studies. It is also home to the President's Barracks, and from 1953 to 1971, the complex served as the President's residence.
The Yad Ben-Zvi Library is open to the general public. It preserves community and religious books of diverse communities and rare books, periodicals, documents, and maps. The photo archive, named after Shoshana and Asher Halevi, contains hundreds of thousands of photos that reflect the history of the Jewish people in its Diaspora and the history of the Land of Israel and its inhabitants in the last one hundred and fifty years.
In recent years, Yad Yitzhak Ben-Zvi has been leading heritage projects under the leadership of the Department of Treasures and Visual Documentation, documenting heritage assets in several museums across the country and making their treasures available to the general public.
The Yad Yitzhak Ben-Zvi complex comprises a national heritage site, research institutes, a library, a photo archive, a book publishing house, and the School of Jerusalem Studies. It is also home to the President's Barracks, and from 1953 to 1971, the complex served as the President's residence.
The Yad Ben-Zvi Library is open to the general public. It preserves community and religious books of diverse communities and rare books, periodicals, documents, and maps. The photo archive, named after Shoshana and Asher Halevi, contains hundreds of thousands of photos that reflect the history of the Jewish people in its Diaspora and the history of the Land of Israel and its inhabitants in the last one hundred and fifty years.
In recent years, Yad Yitzhak Ben-Zvi has been leading heritage projects under the leadership of the Department of Treasures and Visual Documentation, documenting heritage assets in several museums across the country and making their treasures available to the general public.
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Existence and location of copies
Author of the description
Joana Rodrigues, 2023
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