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Mayse-bukh (Book of Stories)
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The Mayse-bukh (Book of Stories), a collection of more than two hundred and fifty stories in Yiddish, was popular among Jews in Western and Eastern Europe from the sixteenth to the nineteenth…

Contributor:

Unknown

Places:

Rovere, Venice (Roverè Veronese, Italy)

Date:

1585–1590

Subjects:

Yiddish, Anthologies, Writing, Leisure, Folklore

Categories:

Print & book culture, Folklore
Single manuscript page with Yiddish text.
Scroll of the Book of Esther
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Moses ben Abraham Pescarol’s illuminated scroll of Esther, completed in Ferrara, constitutes one of the oldest examples of an illustrated manuscript of this biblical book, which is chanted on the…

Contributor:

Moses Pescarol

Places:

Ferrara, Papal States (Ferrara, Italy)

Date:

1618

Subjects:

Illuminated manuscripts, Holidays, Purim, Dress, Folklore, Ritual objects

Categories:

Print & book culture, Ritual Objects
Page of Hebrew text surrounded by decorative border with four well-dressed figures on top.
Maḥzor for the Rite of Carpentras
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This maḥzor (holiday prayer book) contains the festival prayers for the whole year, according to the rite of Carpentras, and was copied in Provence. The Jews of the former papal territory of Comtat…

Contributor:

Artist Unknown

Places:

Carpentras, Papal States (Carpentras, France)

Date:

1540/1

Subjects:

Illuminated manuscripts, Prayer & liturgy, Passover, Folklore, Animals

Categories:

Print & book culture, Prayer & Liturgy
Manuscript page with Hebrew text, with some words set apart in rectangular frames, surrounded by border of branches, flowers, and birds, and small illustration of boy and animal with tail in bottom margin.