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Translation of the liturgy into Judaeo-Provengal (i. e. Provengal in Hebrew characters). At the end, there is a register of the Montel family, 1587-1614. 14th century manuscript.

Archive Judaica File

[Seder tefilot be-targum le-Shuʾadit]. [סדר תפילות בתרגום לשואדית]. [Translation of the Jewish prayer book into Judaeo-Provençal with a register of the Montel family, 1587-1614].

[14th-15th century]

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Book containing late seventeenth century culinary and medical recipes

ca.1690

In 3 different hands. Bound in leather, with modern pencilled foliation

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alistic tree, shewing four of seven ספירות, with various designs. Italian, 18th century.

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[Ilan ha-sefirot]. [אילן הספירות]. [Kabbalistic tree].

[17th century]

Hebrew title supplied by cataloguer. English title derived from Roth, "Catalogue", in Alexander Marx: Jubilee Volume, vol. 1 (New York, 1950), no. 418. Variant titles: Kabbalistic roll. Sefirot t...

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Expenses of the diets provided for the Council in Star Chamber at Westminster during Easter Term, 3 Eliz. I, 1561

1561

ff.1r and 7r-12v are blank

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French cookery book

16--

Two pages of French verse, followed by 15 pages of recipes apparently in unrhymed verse

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Recipe book known as 'Dame Mary Lister's household book'

Lister, Dame Mary (1625-1635)

16--

Anonymous recipe book, known as 'Dame Mary Lister's household book', containing culinary and medical recipes, household inventories and religious notes, in various hands. Includes: (1) inventories an...

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Miscellaneous writings of Solomon Candia (died 1630) including letters, poems, aphorisms, love letters in Judaeo-Italian, and a long Sabbath-poem, Ben venuta o bella sposa in Judaeo-Italian.

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[Pinḳas be-ʿIvrit ṿe-Iṭalḳit-Yehudit : ʿim mikhtavim, shirim, piyuṭim, pitgamim, ṿe-khu. / nikhtav ʿal yede Shelomoh di Ḳandiʾah]. [פנקס בעברית ואיטלקית־יהודית : עם מכתבים, שירים, פיוטים, פתגמים, וכו׳ / נכתב על ידי שלמה די קאנדיאה]. [Notebook : with poems, aphorisms, love letters in Judaeo-Italian, and a long Sabbath-poem, 'Ben venuta o bella sposa' in Judaeo-Italian, et cetera / written by Solomon Candia].

Fano, Menahem Azariah da (1548-1620); Dato, Mordechai

[c 1590–1641]

Hebrew title supplied by cataloguer. English title derived from Roth, "Catalogue", in Alexander Marx: Jubilee Volume, vol. 1 (New York, 1950), no. 701. Variant titles: Maḥberet. מחברת. Igro...

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Regulations for the household of James I

1616

List of foods and instructions for their preparation

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Travelling Library

1617

A box resembling a single folio book, containing 43 small volumes. This Jacobean travelling library is one of four of a similar kind, the others being in the British Library, the Huntington Library ...

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