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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
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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