Rabbi Isaac B. Seixas's Hebrew Lexicon

Access and use

Location of collection:
College of William and Mary
Special Collections Research Center
Earl Gregg Swem Library
College of William and Mary
400 Landrum Drive
PO 8795
Williamsburg, VA 23187-8795
Contact for questions and access:
Phone: (757) 221-3090
Fax: (757) 221-5440
Restrictions:

Collection is open to all researchers.

Terms of access:

Before reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library.

Preferred citation:

Rabbi Isaac B. Seixas's Hebrew Lexicon, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.

Summary

Extent:
0.10 Linear Feet
Language:
Hebrew English
Preferred citation:

Rabbi Isaac B. Seixas's Hebrew Lexicon, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.

Background

Scope and content:

Manuscript Hebrew lexicon, circa 1860's, by Rabbi Isaac B. Seixas, owned by (?) Doggett, Richmond, Virginia. Hebrew words listed in one column with English synonyms in another one.

Handwritten note in front of book, "John M. Doggett, Richmond, Va....1888." and "this MS Vocabulary (which I found among the ruins of my dear father's library)...seems to have been presented to him by Rabbi Seixas the author at a time when such works were hard to get in slave-holding Virginia."

Physical description:
7 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches. 250 pages.
Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard