Finding Aid for the Cummings Collection of Hebrew Manuscripts LSC.0828
Finding aid prepared by Manuscripts Division staff; machine-readable finding aid created by Caroline Cubé
UCLA Library Special Collections
Online finding aid last updated on 2020 September 11.
Room A1713, Charles E. Young Research Library
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Contributing Institution:
UCLA Library Special Collections
Title: Cummings collection of Hebrew manuscripts
Identifier/Call Number: LSC.0828
Physical Description:
6 Linear Feet
(12 boxes, 1 oversize box)
Date (inclusive): circa 1420-1915
Physical Location: Stored off-site. All requests to access special collections material must be made in advance using the request button located
on this page.
Language of Material:
Hebrew
.
Portions of collection unprocessed. Please contact Special Collections reference (spec-coll@library.ucla.edu) for more information.
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[Identification of item], Cummings collection of Hebrew manuscripts (Collection 828). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles
E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
Provenance/Source of Acquisition
Gift of Mrs. Theodore E. Cummings in honor of her husband, Spring 1963.
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Description derived from in-house card file.
UCLA Catalog Record ID:
4232919
Collection consists of Hebrew manuscripts, mainly Eastern European and some Iraqi, including Cabalistic works such as
Pardes rimonim by Moses Cordovero (16th century) and
'Ez Hayyim by Hayyim Vital (1705); prayer books including one from Yemen in the late eighteenth century; a red and black manuscript of 1588 on Jewish
chronology and calendar; and The Scroll of Saragossa, ca. 1420, commemorating the miraculous salvation of a community of Spanish
Jews.
Hebrew manuscripts included with the printed books from the rare book firm of Bamberger and Wahrman, Jerusalem.
- Cummings Collection of Hebraica and Judaica Card Index (Collection 827). Available at UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA.
- Rosenberg-Lewin Collection of Hebrew Manuscripts (Collection 779). Available at UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA.
- Feldman Collection of Hebrew Manuscripts (Collection 960). Available at UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA.
A digital copy of the card files is available via this link:
Link to Cummings Collection card file
Catalog Descriptions of Hebrew manuscripts are available through the
National Library of Israel.
Enter "University of California Library Los Angeles, CA USA Ms. 828" in the Search Box to locate catalog records from UCLA
Library Special Collections. Including a box number will provide more accurate results.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Judaism -- Manuscripts.