Isaac Myer papers

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id: 2930
origination: Myer, Isaac, 1836-1902
date statement: 1860-1900 [bulk 1890-1900]
key date: 1860
identifier (local_mss): 2090
org unit: Manuscripts and Archives Division
call number: MssCol 2090
b-number: b11959753
total components: 275
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unitdate: {"value"=>"1860-1900", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1860/1900"}

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date_inclusive_start: 1860
date_inclusive_end: 1900
keydate: 1860
date_start: 1860
date_end: 1900
unittitle: {"value"=>"Isaac Myer papers"}
physdesc: {"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"10.3 linear feet (11 boxes)"}], "supress_display"=>true}
repository: {"value"=>"The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division. <div class=\"address\"> Stephen A. Schwarzman Building Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, New York, NY 10018-2788</div>"}
abstract: {"value"=>"Isaac Myer (1836-1902) was an attorney and author who practiced law in New York City and Philadelphia. In addition to his legal career, he was an amateur historian, orientalist and active freemason. His literary works focused on U.S. constitutional history, federalism, and mystical and antiquarian subjects. Collection consists of manuscripts of Myer's published works, with translations, transcriptions, commentaries, bibliographies, and indexes. Materials relate to his research and writings on the Kabbalah and biblical history, as well as several manuscripts pertaining to federalism and constitutional history."}
langmaterial: {"value"=>"Some items are in French"}
prefercite: {"value"=>"Isaac Myer papers, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library"}
origination: {"value"=>"Myer, Isaac, 1836-1902", "type"=>"persname"}
bioghist: {"value"=>"Isaac Myer (1836-1902) was an attorney and author born in Philadelphian, who practiced law and wrote in both New York City and Philadelphia. In addition to his legal career, Myer was an amateur historian, orientalist, and active freemason. His literary fields of endeavor focused on United States constitutional history, federalism, and mystical arid antiquarian subjects. A man of some personal wealth, he was publisher of the majority of his own works."}
scopecontent: {"value"=>"The Isaac Myer Papers are a collection of manuscripts of published works, as well as translations, transcriptions, commentaries, bibliographies, and indexes relating to Myer's research aid writings on the Kabbalah, and biblical history, as well as several manuscripts pertaining to federalism and constitutional history. Myer investigated many aspects of the Kabbalah and the history of Jewish Mysticism, but his main focus and the bulk of his papers relate to the speculative rather than doctrinal aspects of the Kabbalah. His research centered on the Zohar, a Kabbalistic work originating in Spain in the late 13th Century, the Sepher Yezirah, or \"Book of Creation\", dating from the 9th century, and later, Christian commentators on the Kabbalah including J. Munk, and Knorr von Rosenroth, author of Kabbalah Denudatae, or the Kabbalah Unveiled. These later commentaries focused on the relationship of the Kabbalah to Christian doctrine, and the relationship of Christian Gnosticism to the Kabbalah. Myer's own books include: The Qabbalah: The Philosophy Of Ibn Gebriol, ON Dreams by Sysesius, Scarabs, The Oddest Book' in the World, Taken from the Papyri and Monuments."}
acqinfo: {"value"=>"February 1904, Received from Estate of Isaac Myer"}
processinfo: {"type"=>"processing", "value"=>"4-8-86"}
extent_statement: 10.3 linear feet (11 boxes)
date_bulk_start: 1890
date_bulk_end: 1900

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