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Sefirotic Diagram of the First Man
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According to the colophon, Natan Hammerschlag’s Ilan de-adam kadmon (Sefirotic Diagram of the First Man) was copied from the writings of Ḥayim Vital, the most prominent disciple of Isaac Luria…

Contributor:

Natan Hammerschlag

Places:

Moravia, Holy Roman Empire (Moravia, Czech Republic)

Date:

1691

Subjects:

Illuminated manuscripts, Sefirot, Kabbalah, Mysticism, Body image

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture, Magic & Mysticism, Magical Texts
Manuscript page with Hebrew text in circular frames arranged as a diagram in the shape of a human head with crown.
Nathan ben Samson of Meseritsch (scribe and artist), Psalms
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This elaborately decorated title page is from a book of Psalms created by the scribe Nathan ben Samson in Gross Meseritsch, Moravia (today Velké Meziříčí, Czech Republic). On the left is Aaron in his…

Contributor:

Nathan ben Samson of Meseritsch

Places:

Gross Meseritsch, Holy Roman Empire (Velké Meziříčí, Czech Republic)

Date:

1728

Subjects:

Illuminated manuscripts, Bible, Artists, Art

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture, Cartooning & Graphic Art
Printed page with Hebrew and Yiddish text in center flanked by two figures with decorative borders at top and bottom, and text wrapping around margins of page.
Haggadah
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This Haggadah was commissioned by Nathan ben Isaac Oppenheim of Vienna, a member of a prominent family of Court Jews. Its title page features a miniature of the sacrifice of Isaac being prevented by…

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Meshulam Zimmel ben Moses of Polna

Places:

Polná, Holy Roman Empire (Polná, Czech Republic)

Date:

1719

Subjects:

Illuminated manuscripts, Ritual & observance, Haggadah, Passover, Food and drink

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture, Prayer & Liturgy
Manuscript page with Hebrew text surrounded by illustrations of lions and man with sword at top, rulers on either side of text in the middle, and people seated at dining table at bottom of page.
Klausen Book of Psalms
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According to the colophon, the scribe in Prague who produced the Klausen Book of Psalms, Shabbetai Sheftel ben Zalman Auerbach (d. 1738), was descended from a family expelled from Vienna in 1669/70…

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Shabbetai Sheftel Auerbach

Places:

Prague, Holy Roman Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)

Date:

1706

Subjects:

Illuminated manuscripts, Bible, Poetry, Writing, Artists

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture, Religion & Theology, Biblical Poetry
Page with Hebrew text of illustrations of men in turbans on either side of the text; cherub, vines, and birds at top of page; and six men in prayer shawls walking to building at bottom of page.