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Sefirotic Tree
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This elaborate Italian kabbalistic manuscript depicts the inner processes of the divine (the sefirot) in the shape of a tree (in Hebrew, ilan), or tree of life. Visualization plays an important part…

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Artist Unknown

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Date:

Early 16th Century

Subjects:

Kabbalah, Mysticism, Sefirot, Animals, Astrology

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture, Science & Philosophy, Astronomy
Manuscript page with Hebrew text in a half circle shape with many interior circles and branches, with center illustration of a person with three winged animals and an angel, another illustration on the left of person with a crown, and drawings along the perimeter of the half circle.
Astrolabe
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This astrolabe, an astronomical instrument, from the sixteenth century is inscribed in Hebrew characters.

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Artist Unknown

Date:

ca. 1550

Subjects:

Astronomy, Travel, Profession

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Science & Philosophy, Astronomy
Watch-like device with concentric circles, inner geometric shapes and hands.