Masekhet Horayot
Footprint · http://data.judaicalink.org/data/footprints/footprint/9105
From footprints
- rdf:type
- Footprint
- Actor
- Yale University Library (Owner)
- Date
- 1902
- Call number
- Mcd30 +734, vol. 29
- Copy
- 1060-4522-6286
- Evidence type
- Owner signature/bookplate in extant copy
- Notes
Note that Yale's copy of Masekhet Horayot is bound together with tractates Sanhedrin, Shevu'ot, Makkot and Eduyot and Avot Derabi Natan. Avot Derabi Natan, however, does not seem to be an independent volume because it has no official title page like tractate Eduyot. The same is t…
Note that Yale's copy of Masekhet Horayot is bound together with tractates Sanhedrin, Shevu'ot, Makkot and Eduyot and Avot Derabi Natan. Avot Derabi Natan, however, does not seem to be an independent volume because it has no official title page like tractate Eduyot. The same is true for the minor tractates found here as well: Tractates Sofrim, Semachot, Kallah and Derekh Eretz. There is a bookplate marking them as belonging to Josephus Mona Lesser and that Yale acquired them from the bookdealer C.F. Libbie on June 11/12 1902. Also note that on February 14th, 1902, the Boston Evening Transcript reported the death of Josephus Mona Lesser. He knew many languages, including Hebrew and was a collector of Hebrew books. Upon his death, his wife, Alice Parker Lesser sold his collection to the bookdealer, C. F. Libbie and Co. (597 Washington Street, Boston, Ma.) who then sold the collection to Yale University. According to the bookplate in this volume, Yale acquired this volume in June of 1902. See (https://books.google.com/books?id=GthGAQAAMAAJ&pg=PR17&lpg=PR17&dq=%22mona+lesser%22+company&source=bl&ots=5JbMDudm1q&sig=qYIiDT6JQEASQdqnff0X_VDL5gk&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiV2MCZudjaAhWi6IMKHbziDnoQ6AEwBHoECAIQAQ#v=onepage&q=%22mona%20lesser%22%20company&f=false), where we are told that, according to American Book Prices, C. F. Libbie purchased the collection of Josephus Mona Lesser on June 11th and 12th, 1902. Finally, it is important to take note of the second bookplate which has a design recalling the Isle of Mann. In fact, Josephus Mona Lesser's parents were from the Isle of Mann, although it is unclear if Josephus was born there. See image in footprint entry of Masekhet Berakhot 7629. See Josephus Mona Lesser's obituary: https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=PpE-AAAAIBAJ&sjid=JFoMAAAAIBAJ&pg=3028%2C1760778- Owner
- Yale University Library
- Percent complete
- 81
- Place
- New Haven, Connecticut, United States
- Evidence location
- New Haven, CT
- Title
- Masekhet Horayot
- Verified
- false
- described at
- https://footprints.ctl.columbia.edu/footprint/9105/
- dcterms:date
- 1902
- rdfs:label
- Masekhet Horayot