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TAUSSIG NEU-GRESCHEL (Tang), Abraham ben Naftali (d. 1792). Tappuchei Zahav and Maskiyot Kesef (two mystical commentaries on Ecclesiastes) and Tsofnat Pa'aneach (on mythology). AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT ON PAPER
London, Sukkot-Tuesday 5 Kislev 5533 (1772)
8o[?] (191 x 110 mm). 103 leaves in total, including one blank added later, original Hebrew pagination. Dark brown ink. Pseudo-Sephardic script. (Misbound, the majority of the leaves damaged, especially at beginning and end, with considerable loss of text, archivally silked and otherwise restored, the beginning of the second chapter bound at the end, the larger part of the text still well legible.) Modern blind and gold-tooled red morocco, two modern paper flyleaves at back and front.
CONTENTS:
p. [1]r: opening acrostic poem, only a fragment preserved.
p. [2]: blank.
p. 1-16: introduction.
p. 1-109: Tappuchei Zahav and Maskiyot Kesef. Two philosophical commentaries on Ecclesiastes written in separate columns on each page surrounding the Biblical text. Incomplete, including only the first and second chapters.
p. 110: blank (including the additional later blank).
p. 111-169: Tsofnat Pa'aneach (on mythology). The author quotes Latin texts, among others Vergil, with Dryden's translation, of which he gives Hebrew translations.
p. 170: blank.
5 additional unnumbered leaves (the beginning of the second chapter) misbound at the end of the volume.
p. [190]: blank.
ALL THESE UNPUBLISHED WORKS ARE FOUND IN THIS UNIQUE MANUSCRIPT ONLY
The name 'Tang' in Hebrew is an acronym (TN"G) for Taussig Neu-Greschel coined by the author's grandfather, the Prague dayyan Abraham Taussig Neu-Greschel. The author was also known as Abraham Abrahams (cf. EJ 2, col. 163). On the author, a descendant of Judah Liwa ben Bezalel of Prague (Maharal), who was one of the earliest of the maskilim or enlightened scholars in England, cf. C. Roth, in Essays presented to Israel Brodie (London 1967) p. 368-372; S.B. Leperer, in Transactions of the Jewish Historical Society of England 24 (1974) p. 82-88; and S. Hock & D. Kaufmann, Die Familien Prags (Pressburg 1892) p. 148-149. The Jewish Museum of London holds a 1758 Haggadah, copied by Abraham ben Naftali Tang (R.D. Barnett, ed., Catalogue of the Permanent and Loan Collections of the Jewish Museum, London (London, New York, 1974) p. 124-125, No. 638.
REFERENCES: Neubauer, no. 7, p. 3; Institute of Microfilmed Hebrew Manuscripts, Jerusalem, F 4676; [exhibited] Catalogue of Anglo-Jewish Historical Exhibition, 1887. Royal Albert Hall (London 1887) no. 792, p. 33.
London, Sukkot-Tuesday 5 Kislev 5533 (1772)
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CONTENTS:
p. [1]r: opening acrostic poem, only a fragment preserved.
p. [2]: blank.
p. 1-16: introduction.
p. 1-109: Tappuchei Zahav and Maskiyot Kesef. Two philosophical commentaries on Ecclesiastes written in separate columns on each page surrounding the Biblical text. Incomplete, including only the first and second chapters.
p. 110: blank (including the additional later blank).
p. 111-169: Tsofnat Pa'aneach (on mythology). The author quotes Latin texts, among others Vergil, with Dryden's translation, of which he gives Hebrew translations.
p. 170: blank.
5 additional unnumbered leaves (the beginning of the second chapter) misbound at the end of the volume.
p. [190]: blank.
ALL THESE UNPUBLISHED WORKS ARE FOUND IN THIS UNIQUE MANUSCRIPT ONLY
The name 'Tang' in Hebrew is an acronym (TN"G) for Taussig Neu-Greschel coined by the author's grandfather, the Prague dayyan Abraham Taussig Neu-Greschel. The author was also known as Abraham Abrahams (cf. EJ 2, col. 163). On the author, a descendant of Judah Liwa ben Bezalel of Prague (Maharal), who was one of the earliest of the maskilim or enlightened scholars in England, cf. C. Roth, in Essays presented to Israel Brodie (London 1967) p. 368-372; S.B. Leperer, in Transactions of the Jewish Historical Society of England 24 (1974) p. 82-88; and S. Hock & D. Kaufmann, Die Familien Prags (Pressburg 1892) p. 148-149. The Jewish Museum of London holds a 1758 Haggadah, copied by Abraham ben Naftali Tang (R.D. Barnett, ed., Catalogue of the Permanent and Loan Collections of the Jewish Museum, London (London, New York, 1974) p. 124-125, No. 638.
REFERENCES: Neubauer, no. 7, p. 3; Institute of Microfilmed Hebrew Manuscripts, Jerusalem, F 4676; [exhibited] Catalogue of Anglo-Jewish Historical Exhibition, 1887. Royal Albert Hall (London 1887) no. 792, p. 33.