Marriage contract, manuscript, ink and paint on paper, dated the 13th of Av, 5626 at Vidin (1866). Two columns of text, one for the terms of the betrothal (erusin) and one for the marriage (kidushin), both signed by the same two witnesses. On the left side there is additional text at the bottom entitled ""lista,"" enumerating the dowry, with signatures different from those above. The text is written in Sephardic script. The text is divided by bright green columns with painted scalloped arches above, which contain blessings for the bride and groom. Above the two arches is a painted vase with multicolored flowers. The top of the document is in the shape of a scalloped triangle.
Description:
Bride: Rahel bat Yitshak ...?. and Bridegroom: Yosef Hayim ...?.
Subject (Geographic):
Vidin (Bulgaria) --Religious life and customs
Subject (Topic):
Ketubah --Bulgaria --Vidin and Prenuptial agreements (Jewish law)
Marriage contract, manuscript, ink and pencil on paper, dated 25th of hodesh Rahamim [Elul?] 5647 at Vidin (1887). Two columns of text are bordered by two arches. The right column contains the terms of the marriage (kidushin) with the initial abbreviation in large block letters for the expression ""be-siman tov"". The left column, which contains the terms of the betrothal (erushin), begins with the inital word written in large block letters ""Eleh"" (these are). Both columns are signed by the same three people. Below the terms of the betrothal is a paragraph, beginning with the word ""lista"", written in large block letters, which consists of a list enumerating the dowry. The dowry list is followed by two signatures that are different from those above. The text is written in Sephardic script. The document is decorated with colorful floral stickers, which also function to separate the marriage document from the betrothal document. Above the text on either side are three wreath stickers that contain cyrilic letters in the centers. There is an outline of a six cornered star at the top of the document that contains abbreviations, presumably for blessings for the bride and groom.
Subject (Geographic):
Vidin (Bulgaria) --Religious life and customs
Subject (Topic):
Ketubah --Bulgaria --Vidin and Prenuptial agreements (Jewish law)
Most widely known today for his studies of Near Eastern languages Guillaume Postel was a pioneer in the study of Hebrew, Arabic, Syriac, and Aramaic in Western Europe. He was better known in his own time as a prophet, millennialist, and Utopiast. His writings deal largely with his effort to promote world peace, but he was condemned as a heretic for his belief that he was divinely inspired; he claimed, in fact, that he was the reincarnation of the Virgin of Venice. As a scholar he was instrumental in promoting the teaching of Arabic and Syriac, and participated in editing and publishing a number of early Christian works. His theories of language origin (he thought all languages were derived from Hebrew) are no longer considered valid, but his work in comparative linguistics earned him the reputation as the founder of that discipline.
Alternative Title:
Lingvarvm duodecim characteribvs differentivm alphabetvm introdvctio and Lord’s prayer. Polyglot
Description:
Imperfect: leaf H2 (signed ’G’) misbound after H3. and Originally intended to form part of a projected treatise De affinitate linguarum et Hebraicae excellentia.
Publisher:
Apud Dionysium Lescuier ...
Subject (Name):
Lord’s prayer. Polyglot
Subject (Topic):
Alphabets --Early works to 1800, Aramaic language --Early works to 1800, Armenian language --Early works to 1800, Grammar, Comparative and general --Early works to 1800, Language and languages --Grammars --Early works to 1800, Samaritan Aramaic language --Early works to 1800, and Syriac language --Early works to 1800
The decoration is uneven and differs from section to section. Artt. 1, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8 have headings in red ink, red heightening of majuscules, red paragraph marks and red plain initials (plain and unusual flourished initials in red in art. 3) of various sizes. Artt. 2, 4 and 5-8 may have yellow heightening of majuscules too. No initials or paragraph marks in art. 8. Artt. 9-11 have red plain initials up to f. 81v; after that blank spaces with guide-letters; headings are missing after f. 67r. Artt. 2, 4, 12, 13, 14 have almost no decoration. Running headlines (author names) in large Southern Gothica Textualis Formata on pages of artt. 1, 3, 5 and 6., Binding: Nineteenth-century. Damaged half linen, the pasteboard covers covered with red paper impressed with a spiky lozenge pattern in black. Removed and rebound in purple paper. Modern binding not digitized., Cite as: Mariological, Ascetical and Other Texts. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University., Manuscript on paper. This incomplete manuscript consists of a series of more or less independent sections. An unusual feature is the writing of text parts in the lower margins as if they were catchwords. Leaves are missing, and many texts are consequently incomplete. Many pages spoilt by the acidity of the ink. Apparently copied by four different hands, mostly very unstable and looking different depending on the period during which they entered the various sections. A (ff. 1r-54v = artt. 1-8 and ff. 107v-108v = art. 14) writes peculiar forms of Humanistica Semitextualis Libraria, which if written rapidly (Currens) tends to become a Cursiva with more pronounced Gothic features, especially in the additional artt. 2, 4 and 14; typical is the unusual abbreviation for in in the shape of dotted i. B (ff. 55r-66v = art. 9) writes Humanistica Semitextualis Libraria, equally under Gothic influence. C (ff. 67r-98v = artt. 10-11) writes a small sloping Gothico-Antiqua Currens. D (ff. 99r-105r = art. 12) writes a Humanistica Cursiva Libraria under Gothic influence; a deviant form D' is seen on ff. 106r-107r = art. 13., and Modern foliation followed. Wanting ff. 71-72.
Subject (Name):
Bernard, of Clairvaux, Saint, 1090 or 91-1153, John, of Wales, 13th cent, and Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint
Subject (Topic):
Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Contemplation in literature, Exempla -- Early works to 1800, Manuscripts, Medieval -- Connecticut -- New Haven, and Sermons