This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1843 edition. Excerpt: ... law was purchased from a Mohammedan at Ning-keang-chow, in Shen-se, who had received it by legacy from a dying Israelite at Canton, recommended as a relic of great antiquity. Possessing this, they made from it several copies. It is also known, that in 1642, the synagogue again suffered from an inundation, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1843 edition. Excerpt: ... law was purchased from a Mohammedan at Ning-keang-chow, in Shen-se, who had received it by legacy from a dying Israelite at Canton, recommended as a relic of great antiquity. Possessing this, they made from it several copies. It is also known, that in 1642, the synagogue again suffered from an inundation, which destroyed or carried off twenty-six volumes of different kinds, notwithstanding great efforts for their recovery. Now there is one manuscript kept apart from the rest, in this synagogue, held in peculiar veneration, and named in honour of Moses. It was so honoured in 1704, while it bore serious marks of injury caused by the water, the writing in several places being almost effaced. It has been supposed, with much apparent reason, that this is identical with the Canton manuscript procured from the Mohammedan after the conflagration, and with that which the visitor to Ricci, about 1604, described as being four or five hundred years old. This, therefore, constitutes a very prominent object of regard in connexion with the Chinese Jews. The earlier Ning-po manuscript must have perished in the flames. But in the closets there may also be books of considerable antiquity, as it does not appear that all were lost in 1642. One small page has particularly arrested the attention of the curious. At the end of the section-book Bereshith, there is a list of rabbis, with a date, which De Sacy has shown, by a careful computation,1 to correspond with A.d. 1620, i.e., twenty-two years before the last inundation; although he considers it very probable that this leaf may not now be in its original place, but be a fragment of some lost manuscript, since it is known that after this calamity, a great number of loose leaves and detached parts of books were bound...
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