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Sample from “Besszer” Calendar: Foreigners in Budapest
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This text was produced under Ágai’s pseudonym, Mokany Berczi.

Contributor:

Adolf Ágai

Places:

Budapest, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Budapest, Hungary)

Date:

1892

Subjects:

Calendar, Comics, Humor, Cities

Categories:

Cartooning & graphic art
Engraving of two people speaking in the street.
Jewish Woman
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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:

Unknown

Places:

Hamburg, Holy Roman Empire (Hamburg, Germany)

Date:

1572

Subjects:

Women, Calendar, Dress

Categories:

Print & book culture, Cartooning & graphic art
Drawing of woman in profile wearing dress and hat and Hebrew writing on her left.
‘Evronot Manuscript (Rules for Calculation of the Calendar)
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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:

Asher bar Samuel ha-Kohen, Leyb ben Samuel Oppenheim

Places:

Frankfurt am Main, Holy Roman Empire (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)

Date:

1624

Subjects:

Calendar, Time, Math, Illuminated manuscripts, Dress

Categories:

Print & book culture, Cartooning & graphic art
Manuscript page with a grid of Hebrew letters and words set within two domed columns with flags, with image of naked man and woman next to tree between the columns at the top of the page, and man holding scales in middle of page.