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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
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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:
Public Access
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The Hebrew calendar uses a system of intercalation, adding an additional month to the calendar year to synchronize the regular twelve-month calendar with the moon, sun, and seasons. The Hebrew…
Contributor:
Ezra Dangur
Date:
1904