Maḥzor

Simeon ben Naphtali

1662

Manuscript page with Hebrew text above illustration of man on horse and man blowing horn walking into a city gate with flowers and two smaller figures below.
On this illustrated page from a prayer book, written in an Ashkenazic hand, the scribe Simeon ben Naphtali has added, to the prayers said at a wedding, an image of the prophet Elijah (on the left), with a shofar, leading the crowned messiah, who is riding on a donkey, and an unidentified man (on the right) to the gates of Jerusalem. Yet another man, with a staff and holding an object, stands on the road at the bottom right of the page.

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© The British Library Board, Or. 1047. From the collection of The British Library, The Polonsky Foundation Catalogue of Digitised Hebrew Manuscripts.

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

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Creator Bio

Simeon ben Naphtali

17th Century

Simeon ben Naphtali was a scribe active in Alsace, Germany.

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