A mid-seventeenth-century manuscript of the (unpublished) Hebrew grammars of Menasseh ben Israel and Isaac Aboab da Fonseca recovered
AK Offenberg - Zutot 2003, 2003 - Springer
AK Offenberg
Zutot 2003, 2003•SpringerConclusion The combination of the paper evidence and the provenance data can lead to the
following conclusion. The manuscript was most probably copied about 1655/60 or a few
years later, during the lifetime of Isaac Aboab da Fonseca, the first rabbi in the New World,
and possibly also during the lifetime of Menasseh ben Israel. Consequently we have here
the first known manuscript copy of Isaac Aboab da Fonseca's unpublished Hebrew
grammar, which is thefirst Hebrew text written in the New World, together with the second …
following conclusion. The manuscript was most probably copied about 1655/60 or a few
years later, during the lifetime of Isaac Aboab da Fonseca, the first rabbi in the New World,
and possibly also during the lifetime of Menasseh ben Israel. Consequently we have here
the first known manuscript copy of Isaac Aboab da Fonseca's unpublished Hebrew
grammar, which is thefirst Hebrew text written in the New World, together with the second …
Conclusion
The combination of the paper evidence and the provenance data can lead to the following conclusion. The manuscript was most probably copied about 1655/60 or a few years later, during the lifetime of Isaac Aboab da Fonseca, the first rabbi in the New World, and possibly also during the lifetime of Menasseh ben Israel. Consequently we have here the first known manuscript copy of Isaac Aboab da Fonseca’s unpublished Hebrew grammar, which is thefirst Hebrew text written in the New World, together with the second known copy of Menasseh ben Israeľs unpublished Hebrew grammar in a more definitive version.
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