Exhibitions of manuscripts and printed volumes by and on Moses Maimonides, the great Jewish sage whose 800th anniversary is being widely celebrated, are cropping up all over the Atlantic seaboard.
The Library of Congress at Washington and the Forty-second Street Library in New York are both holding exhibitions, as is the museum of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, also located in New York. Now comes news that Dropsie College in Philadelphia has also fallen into line.
Assembled in four cases, the items in the Dropsie collection include a copy of the second edition of the Mishneh Torah, printed in 1490; the Guide to the Perplexed in the original Arabic with a French translation; the Book of Medicine, translated from Arabic into Hebrew by Zerahiah ben Isaac and Nathan ha-Me’ati, Lemberg (now Lwow), 1804; and a reproduction of an autograph responsum and an autograph letter of Maimonides, the original of which is at the Jewish Theological Seminary.
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