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A Woman Drawing Water from a Well
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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:

Artist Unknown

Places:

Holy Roman Empire (Germany)

Date:

1619–1624

Subjects:

Women, Agriculture, Profession, Family, Illuminated manuscripts

Categories:

Print & book culture, Cartooning & graphic art
Manuscript page with illustration of woman drawing water from a well as another individual stands behind her with a pitcher of water on head, and Hebrew text above.
Haggadah
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This page from a Haggadah produced in Amsterdam is an example of the work of Joseph Ben David Leipnik, a prominent eighteenth-century scribe and artist known particularly for his illustrated Haggadahs…

Contributor:

Joseph Leipnik

Places:

Holy Roman Empire (Altona, Germany)

Date:

1737

Subjects:

Haggadah, Holidays, Passover, Illuminated manuscripts

Categories:

Print & book culture, Cartooning & graphic art, Ritual Objects
Manuscript page with Hebrew writing on top and illustration below of three central figures in hats and holding swords, next to a horse, camel, dogs, and two tents, with people in the left background and mountains beyond.
‘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.
Collection of Yiddish Stories from Southern Germany
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This page is from a manuscript containing stories in Yiddish. It was copied and illustrated in Tannhausen, Germany between 1580 and 1600, for the Ulma family, who owned a number of important…

Contributor:

Isaac bar Yuda Reutlingen

Places:

Holy Roman Empire (Germany)

Date:

1580–1600

Subjects:

Illuminated manuscripts, Yiddish, Writing, Women, Children

Categories:

Print & book culture, Cartooning & graphic art
Manuscript page with Yiddish text and a small drawing in the middle of the right side depicting a queen kneeling before a king, a burning fire behind her, and two infants on the ground before her.
Illustration of the (Aristotelian) Cosmos
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This illustration of the (Aristotelian) cosmos appears in an eighteenth-century manuscript of Neḥmad ve-na‘im (Nice and Pleasant), David Ganz’s posthumously published book on astronomy.

Contributor:

David Ganz

Places:

Holy Roman Empire (Germany)

Date:

18th Century

Subjects:

Astronomy, Astrology, Cosmology, Illuminated manuscripts, Scholarship

Categories:

Science & philosophy, Astronomy, Cartooning & graphic art
Manuscript page of concentric circles with Hebrew words and stars in the outer circles, and Hebrew text on top and bottom of page.