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Jewish Woman
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Sifre ‘evronot—manuals for calculating the Jewish calendar, including leap years and holidays—were a popular genre of Ashkenazic illustrated manuscripts in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries…

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Unknown

Places:

Hamburg, Holy Roman Empire (Hamburg, Germany)

Date:

1572

Subjects:

Women, Calendar, Dress

Categories:

Print & book culture, Cartooning & graphic art
Drawing of woman in profile wearing dress and hat and Hebrew writing on her left.
Foldout Calendar
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This foldout calendar is a beautifully illuminated feature that appears in a sefer ‘evronot. Works of this genre were Jewish calendar handbooks for calculating the dates of religious holidays and…

Contributor:

Artist Unknown

Places:

Lublin, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Lublin, Poland)

Date:

1552

Subjects:

Illuminated manuscripts, Calendar, Astrology, Animals, Holidays

Categories:

Print & book culture, Science & philosophy
Manuscript calendar page with Hebrew letters in squares, decorated with illustrations of birds and flowers, with castle at the top and dragon at the bottom.