[Mus. 82a] Braunsberg II Chorgesänge

Call Number: Birnbaum Collection Mus. 82a

 

Attribution: Braunsberg, N. H.

 

Place: Berlin?

 

Date: Post-1877, Ante-1910

 

Physical Description: Ink on paper; 28 pages; 1 score ; 27.5 x 21.5cm;

 

Subject: Shabbat; Hallel; Rosh Hashana; Pesach;

 

 

Description:

Cantor’s Manual for cantor soloist and four voice choir (SATB). Full text-underlay primarily in Romanized Hebrew, some German.

 

Birnbaum’s Catalog (BCat) refers to this manuscript as “Braunsberg II.” Manuscript contains four blank pages.

 

Attached is a note by Eduard Birnbaum: “Geschenk der Frau Braunsberg im Auftrage ihres verstorbenen Gattens.” According to Birnbaum’s catalog (BCat), this file included 4 appendices: “4 Beilagen mit Notizen von Recitativen.” Three items, corresponding to B’s description of the “Beilagen,” numbered II-IV have been located and are described separately under Mus. 82b. File also contains a fragment of the envelope that contained the manuscript, stamped by a post office in Berlin.

 

C.f. Mus. 81 and Mus. Add. 13.

 

Link to manuscript record in the HUC Library Catalog