Tombs in the Holy Land

Unknown

16th Century

Manuscript with illustrations of tombs and Hebrew text.
This map showing tombs in the land of Israel was drawn in Italy by a Jewish scribe and is an example of a “pilgrimage scroll.” Pilgrimage scrolls, also known as itineraries, included visual and textual directions for visiting holy sites. This map appears in a manuscript, titled Yiḥus ha-avot (Genealogy of the Patriarchs).

Credits

MS Heb. 28°2370 (1500–1600), National Library Collection, National Library of Israel, Jerusalem.

Published in: The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, vol. 5.

Engage with this Source

You may also like

Pair of silver tower-shaped finials with crowns constructed like multitiered towers of arched cutouts decorated with bells.
Tooltip info icon

Torah Finials

These silver and filigree Torah finials used by Amsterdam’s Ashkenazic community are shaped like four-tiered towers. They have gilt bells in their arches and gilt urns on their corners and are topped…
View Source
Manuscript page with Hebrew text in a diamond shape under an illustration of an archway, decorated with heads and flowers.
Tooltip info icon

Maḥzor

This magnificent maḥzor (holiday prayer book) was copied—and most likely decorated—by the scribe Isaac bar Mordechai ha-Kohen (Isaac Lankosh of Kraków). (In several places, the name “Isaac” has…
View Source
Printed page of Hebrew text in center and decorative border around page with urns, flowers, vines, and faces.
Tooltip info icon

Polyglot Bible (Constantinople)

This is the frontispiece and first page of the Constantinople Polyglot Bible, the first of two multilingual editions of the Pentateuch printed by Eliezer Soncino in Constantinople. It contained the…
View Source