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This prayer book for the Rosh Hashanah festival from Crete is elaborately decorated inside with drawings of animals and people and has a colorful title page. Greek (Romaniote/Byzantine) Jews had lived…

Contributor:

Moses Bili ben Judah

Places:

Candia, Venice (Heraklion, Greece)

Date:

1614

Subjects:

Holidays, Illuminated manuscripts, Ritual & observance, Calendar, Diaspora

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture, Religion & Theology, Prayer & Liturgy
Manuscript page with Hebrew text set in an arched building with two lions on the roof and floral motifs on bottom section.