The Wayfarer’s Prayer in manuscript: Karp BVIII.7
Upon cataloging manuscript ephemera from the Abraham J. and Deborah Karp Collection of Judaica at the Penn Libraries, one item caught my eye – something very uncommon. What I mean by this is that there is no real comparable equivalent to this manuscript that I have seen in other collections or at Judaica auctions.
Yad Aharon: Hebrew Poetry and the Number 14
Yad Aharon is a fascinating little book of poems and homilies. It was printed in Thessaloniki, Greece in the Hebrew year 5599 (1838 or 1839), and the author, Aharon Tsevi Ashkenazi, is only identified as being an elderly poet in Thessaloniki.
New Worlds through Renaissance Manuscripts
When Fabrizio Lelli introduced this sixteenth-century painting by Bartolomeo Veneto to the audience at a lecture this month, he read it for hints as to its subject.
