KETAV TAMIM, MANUSCRIPT ON PAPER Moses ben Hisdai Taku [19th century]

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Description

24 leaves (fols. 10-11, 17v, 20v and 21r blank), 8 ¾ x 6 ¾ inches; 222 x 172 mm, written in Ashkenazic script in black-brown ink; large inkstain on fol. 13. Brown wrappers.

Provenance

Solomon Halberstam (shelf no. 20)

Literature

Hirschfeld (ms. no. 300); partly edited by R. Kirchheim in Ozar Nehmad, 3 (1860), pp. 58-99; see also J. Dan, in Maimonidean Studies 3 (1992-3), pp. 41-47

Catalogue Note

Ketav Tamim is a polemical work by Moses ben Hisdai Taku (early thirteenth century) against the Jewish theologians of his time. Only a small part of the work has survived and it is preserved in Ms. Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, hèb. 711, from which this manuscript was copied by Ber Goldberg.