Hamishah Humshe Torah. bound with Megilot, Neviim Rishonim, Neviim Ahronim, and Sefer Ketuvim
Footprint · http://data.judaicalink.org/data/footprints/footprint/28734
From footprints
- rdf:type
- Footprint
- Call number
- Special Collections BS1222.D5 1566
- Copy
- 6148-7433-12188
- Flag
- Narrative is empty
- Language
- Arabic
- Evidence type
- Owner signature/bookplate in extant copy
- Notes
CAN YOU HELP? can you decipher the inscription on the title page at bottom (see image)? https://x.com/Puzur_Ishtar/status/1824331308618658297 suggests that "If the third letter is ل as I see it, & if the 2nd word is a possibly idiosyncratic spelling of Surat, then I guess it wou…
CAN YOU HELP? can you decipher the inscription on the title page at bottom (see image)? https://x.com/Puzur_Ishtar/status/1824331308618658297 suggests that "If the third letter is ل as I see it, & if the 2nd word is a possibly idiosyncratic spelling of Surat, then I guess it would make sense: مصلي سوريت prayerhouse (synagogue?) of Surat (India) There was a permanent Jewish settlement there from the last decades of the 17thC" Amalia Levi: I showed the inscription to a friend (who reads Ottoman Turkish) who translated it as Osmanî Vezîret, meaning Ottoman vizierate. Paul Babinksi: وریت strikes me as a likely transliteration for “Wright” [This would fit with the F.W. inscription on the other Footprint] Alastair McCapra had the same suggestion.- Percent complete
- 72
- Evidence location
- Indiana University of Pennsylvania
- Title
- Hamishah Humshe Torah. bound with Megilot, Neviim Rishonim, Neviim Ahronim, and Sefer Ketuvim
- Verified
- false
- described at
- https://footprints.ctl.columbia.edu/footprint/28734/
- rdfs:label
- Hamishah Humshe Torah. bound with Megilot, Neviim Rishonim, Neviim Ahronim, and Sefer Ketuvim
- foaf:depiction
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