| LC control no. | nr 92014738 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| LC classification | PJ5052.A65 |
| Personal name heading | Almanzi, Giuseppe, 1801-1860 |
| Variant(s) | Almanzi, Joseph, 1801-1860 Almantsi, Yosef, 1801-1860 אלמנצי, יוסף אלמנצי, יוסף, 1801-1860 Almantius, Josephus, 1801-1860 |
| See also | Friend: Luzzatto, Samuel David, 1800-1865 Former owner of: Golden Haggadah |
| Associated country | Austro-Hungarian Monarchy Italy |
| Located | Padua (Italy) Trieste (Italy) |
| Birth date | 1801-03-25 |
| Death date | 1860-03-07 |
| Place of birth | Padua (Italy) |
| Place of death | Trieste (Italy) |
| Field of activity | Poetry Book collecting Rare books Manuscripts--Collectors and collecting Hebrew imprints Manuscripts, Hebrew Translating and interpreting |
| Profession or occupation | Poets Philologists Hebraists Book collectors Manuscripts--Collectors and collecting Translators Bibliophile Rare book collector |
| Special note | Machine-derived non-Latin script reference project. Non-Latin script references not evaluated. |
| Found in | Catalog der reichhaltigen Sammlungen hebräischer und jüdischer Bücher ... nachgelassen von Giuseppe Almanzi ... Jacob Emden ... M.J. Lewenstein ... 1990. NUC pre-56 (Almanzi, Giuseppe, 1801-1860) His Nezem zahav, 1949 or 1950: t.p. (Yosef Almantsi [voc.]) Encyc. Judaica, 1971 (Almanzi, Joseph; Italian Hebrew author and poet; b. 1801 in Padua; d. 1860) Narkiss, Bezalel. The Golden Haggadah, 1970: page 1 (Paduan collector Joseph (Giuseppe) Almanzi (died 1863); poet and collector of rare books and manuscripts; Golden Haggadah, illuminated Hebrew manuscript of Gothic period in Spain, cited by S.D. Luzzatto in 1864 sale catalogue of manuscripts in Almanzi collection; no exact record of date acquired by Almanzi; 14 October 1865, collection was bought for British Museum) Almanzi, Giuseppe. Yad Yosef, 1889, viewed online 9 March 2020: title page (יוסף אלמנצי = Yosef Almantsi) added title page, Latin (Josephi Almantii carmina, epistulae, inscriptiones) 3rd preliminary page, Italian (born in Padova, 25 March 1801; died in Trieste, 7 March 1860) Wikipedia, 6 March 2020 (Joseph Almanzi (March 25, 1801, Padua-March 7, 1860, Trieste); Italian Jewish bibliophile and poet; he began at early age to write Hebrew poems on special occasions; at age 20, student of Jewish literature, ardent collector of Hebrew books; good command over Hebrew, Italian, Latin, German, and French languages, is said to have known Syriac; his father had bought library formerly belonging to Chaim Joseph David Azulai; this library was largely increased by Joseph Almanzi, its rare editions and manuscripts making it one of the most important in private possession; during last few years of his life, lived at Trieste, where took lively interest in all communal affairs; was above all translator into pure Biblical Hebrew of poems of great Italian authors; left a number of Hebrew poems in manuscript, among them translations from Horace; few of his poems have been published; after his death, a number of his Hebrew letters and poems were published (1889); Almanzi's family published in his honor catalogue of his Hebrew library, compiled by his lifelong friend S.D. Luzzatto, who also wrote a preface; the greater part of the manuscripts were bought by British Museum; the collection of rare books found its way to bookseller Frederik Müller in Amsterdam, bought in 1868 by trustees of Temple Emanu-El in New York City, who in 1893 presented it to library of Columbia University) <https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Joseph_Almanzi&oldid=866720640> Wikidata, 6 March 2020 (Joseph Almanzi (Q1706440); יוסף אלמנצי; description: Italian poet; sex or gender: male; given name: Joseph; languages spoken, written, or signed: Italian; occupations: linguist, author, writer, translator, poet) <http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1706440> |
| Associated language | heb |
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