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Ketubah (Hamburg)
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On June 7, 1690, Samuel de Isaac Senior Teixeira married Rachel Teixeira de Mattos Senior in Hamburg. Their beautiful ketubah (marriage contract) depicts the couple under the wedding canopy…

Contributor:

Artist Unknown

Places:

Hamburg, Holy Roman Empire (Hamburg, Germany)

Date:

1690

Subjects:

Illuminated manuscripts, Ketubot, Life cycle, Marriage, Sephardic

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture, Law, Legal Documents
Page of Aramaic text surrounded by ornate illustrations, including couple under wedding canopy at the top of the page with many well-dressed people around them and two angels flying overhead, and two women on pedestals on either side of the bottom of the page on either side of a wreath with text inside.
A Woman Drawing Water from a Well
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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:

Artist Unknown

Places:

Holy Roman Empire (Germany)

Date:

1619–1624

Subjects:

Women, Agriculture, Profession, Family, Illuminated manuscripts

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture, Cartooning & Graphic Art
Manuscript page with illustration of woman drawing water from a well as another individual stands behind her with a pitcher of water on head, and Hebrew text above.
Scroll of the Book of Esther
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This scroll of Esther from Germany, created for use on the holiday of Purim, is extensively decorated, with illustrations of biblical scenes from the Esther story, as well as various flora and fauna…

Contributor:

Artist Unknown

Places:

Holy Roman Empire (Germany)

Date:

ca. 1630

Subjects:

Illuminated manuscripts, Holidays, Purim, Animals, Music

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture, Ritual Objects, Religion & Theology
Scroll manuscript page with Hebrew text in four columns, with illustrations on top of figures seated talking to each other, working by a tree, and walking; the middle sections feature ladders and people working on trees; the bottom features elephants and rhinoceroses.
Passover Haggadah with German Translation
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One of Charlotte von Rothschild’s most outstanding works is the only known nineteenth-century Hebrew manuscript to have been illuminated by a woman.

Contributor:

Charlotte von Rothschild

Places:

Frankfurt am Main, German Confederation (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)

Date:

1842

Subjects:

Passover, Holidays, Illuminated manuscripts, Life cycle, Ashkenazi

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Decorative Arts, Print & Book Culture
Decorated page framed with foliate design featuring two angels on left and right, Hebrew text in middle, and lions on bottom register.
Toledot Adam (The Generations of Adam)
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This two-page spread from Elijah ben Moses Loanz’s Toledot Adam (The Generations of Adam) includes examples of some of the kabbalistic amulets and formulae for which he was famous.

Contributor:

Elijah Loanz

Places:

Wilhermsdorf, Holy Roman Empire (Wilhermsdorf, Germany)

Date:

1734

Subjects:

Illuminated manuscripts, Amulets, Astrology, Mysticism, Kabbalah

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Magical Texts, Magical Objects
Facing-page Hebrew manuscript with charts with Hebrew letters on left side, and geometric drawings on right side.
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.
Illustration of the (Aristotelian) Cosmos
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This illustration of the (Aristotelian) cosmos appears in an eighteenth-century manuscript of Neḥmad ve-na‘im (Nice and Pleasant), David Ganz’s posthumously published book on astronomy.

Contributor:

David Ganz

Places:

Holy Roman Empire (Germany)

Date:

18th Century

Subjects:

Astronomy, Astrology, Cosmology, Illuminated manuscripts, Scholarship

Categories:

Science & Philosophy, Astronomy, Cartooning & Graphic Art
Manuscript page of concentric circles with Hebrew words and stars in the outer circles, and Hebrew text on top and bottom of page.
‘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.