From the Kislak Stacks
Join us for these monthly lunchtime presentations (noon – 1 pm) by Kislak curators, faculty, and students focusing on specific works or small archives/collections found among the holdings of the Kislak Center.
- Lecture
The Colker Hebrew Fragments: Description and Significance
This talk will demonstrate some of the important and unusual aspects of a collection of mostly medieval Judaic manuscripts, acquired from the private collection of manuscript bibliographer Marvin Colker.
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February 13, 2026, 12:00pm -
1:00pm
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Virtual (link will be sent to registrants)
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Open to the Public
Hosted by: Kislak Center
Penn manuscripts CAJS Rar Ms 615-642 were purchased as a lot in December 2022, previously in the private collection of manuscript bibliographer Marvin Colker (d. 2020). They comprise mostly medieval Judaic manuscript fragments, such as leaves and bifolia, and range from Iraq to Iberia to Austria, and range in subject from liturgy, Bible, and rabbinic texts. This talk will demonstrate some of the important and unusual aspects of these manuscripts, as well as extant comparable manuscript copies, and show paleographical and bibliographic details from cataloging them.
About the speaker
Louis Meiselman is the Rare Judaica Cataloging Librarian at the Kislak Center; Louis catalogs books, manuscripts, and archival material ranging from all of the Judaic languages (Hebrew, Yiddish, Ladino, Judeo-Arabic, and more). Previous to working at the Kislak Center, Louis cataloged the Baltimore Hebrew Institute Special Collections, now at Towson University, and 16th century Hebrew books at the Library of Congress.
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Featured Image: One of the Colker Hebrew Fragments (photograph: Louis Meiselman)