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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:

Print & book culture, Science & philosophy
Manuscript page with illustration of man on a ladder and angel above him, with Hebrew text beneath.
Technical Diagram from Joseph Delmedigo’s Elim
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This is a technical diagram from Joseph Delmedigo’s Sefer Elim (Book of Elim), a scientific and philosophical work published by Menasseh Ben Israel.

Contributor:

Menasseh Ben Israel, Joseph Solomon Delmedigo

Places:

Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Date:

1629

Subjects:

Print, Technology, Math, Scholarship, Profession

Categories:

Print & book culture, Science & philosophy
Printed page with Hebrew text on right side and illustration of tall tower with wheels inside it on left side.