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Sefirotic Tree
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This elaborate Italian kabbalistic manuscript depicts the inner processes of the divine (the sefirot) in the shape of a tree (in Hebrew, ilan), or tree of life. Visualization plays an important part…

Contributor:

Artist Unknown

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Date:

Early 16th Century

Subjects:

Kabbalah, Mysticism, Sefirot, Animals, Astrology

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture, Science & Philosophy, Astronomy
Manuscript page with Hebrew text in a half circle shape with many interior circles and branches, with center illustration of a person with three winged animals and an angel, another illustration on the left of person with a crown, and drawings along the perimeter of the half circle.
Foldout Calendar
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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

Subjects:

Illuminated manuscripts, Calendar, Astrology, Animals, Holidays

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture, Science & Philosophy, Religion & Theology
Manuscript calendar page with Hebrew letters in squares, decorated with illustrations of birds and flowers, with castle at the top and dragon at the bottom.
Sefer goralot
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These illustrated pages are from a manuscript copy of Sefer goralot (Book of Lots), a treatise on geomancy, which was a method of divination popular in the medieval world. The text was attributed…

Contributor:

Abraham Ibn Ezra

Places:

Córdoba, Spanish Empire (Córdoba, Spain)

Date:

18th Century

Subjects:

Kabbalah, Astrology, Philosophy, Arabic, Translation

Categories:

Religion & Theology, Magical Texts, Print & Book Culture
Facing-page manuscript with illustration of fish and spiral design with Hebrew list below on right side, and illustrations of ram's head and bull's head with Hebrew lists below on left page.