Creator Bio
Uri Fayvesh Segal
18th Century
The eighteenth-century scribe and illustrator Uri Fayvesh ben Isaac Segal was a significant member of the Hamburg-Altona school of illustrated manuscript production. Seven manuscripts signed by Uri Fayvesh Segal are known, and five further unsigned manuscripts are attributed to him.
Entries in the Posen Library by This Creator
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The Order of Circumcision Prayers
This decorated manuscript of the prayers for a circumcision ceremony was owned by one Joseph ben Samuel. On its title page (not shown) is an unidentified coat of arms decorated with the Order of the…