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Excerpt from A Seventeenth-Century Autobiography
The manuscript from which the following text is taken forms part of a collection presented to the Jewish Theo logical Seminary by Messrs. Moses and Marks Ottinger. It is briey described in Catalogue XI of Messrs. Schwager Fraenkel, Husiatyn, under no. 110. It is an autograph written in a cursive German hand; it measures 13-7 xg-5 cm. It begins with the title numm 15d, followed by three blank leaves. The autobiography fills fols. I - II a; between fols. Lo and II the author evidently tore out a leaf. The next page has a short note on his travels, which forms a kind of continuation of the text, and is printed here as such, together with a set of good resolutions drawn up at various times, which contain some further biographical material and are characteristic of the writer, but do not seem to require translation. They are found on fol. 34 of the manuscript. F 013. 12 - 25 contain ethical and philo sophical reections in fifteen paragraphs, interrupted by cabbalistic combinations (15 a) and blank pages (15 b - 17 a).
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