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Maḥzor
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This prayer book for the Rosh Hashanah festival from Crete is elaborately decorated inside with drawings of animals and people and has a colorful title page. Greek (Romaniote/Byzantine) Jews had lived…

Contributor:

Moses Bili ben Judah

Places:

Candia, Venice (Heraklion, Greece)

Date:

1614

Subjects:

Holidays, Illuminated manuscripts, Ritual & observance, Calendar, Diaspora

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture, Religion & Theology, Prayer & Liturgy
Manuscript page with Hebrew text set in an arched building with two lions on the roof and floral motifs on bottom section.
Calendar Manual
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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…

Contributor:

Pinchas (Phineas) ben Avraham Halevi

Places:

Halberstadt, Holy Roman Empire (Halbe Metze, Germany)

Date:

1716

Subjects:

Illuminated manuscripts, Calendar, Math, Bible, Art

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture, Religion & Theology, Science & Philosophy
Manuscript page with illustration of man on a ladder and angel above him, with Hebrew text beneath.
‘Evronot Manuscript (Rules for Calculation of the Calendar)
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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…

Contributor:

Asher bar Samuel ha-Kohen, Leyb ben Samuel Oppenheim

Places:

Frankfurt am Main, Holy Roman Empire (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)

Date:

1624

Subjects:

Calendar, Time, Math, Illuminated manuscripts, Dress

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture, Cartooning & Graphic Art
Manuscript page with a grid of Hebrew letters and words set within two domed columns with flags, with image of naked man and woman next to tree between the columns at the top of the page, and man holding scales in middle of page.