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Like Torah scrolls, the scroll of the biblical book of Esther, read ritually in the synagogue on the holiday of Purim, must be completely unadorned. However, in the sixteenth century, for reasons…
Contributor:
Andrea Marelli
Places:
Rome, Papal States (Rome, Italy)
Date:
1573
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In 1583, Mattetiah ben David Spagnolo completed this illuminated Haggadah for Leon ben Judah Bili. Greek (Romaniote/Byzantine) Jews had lived on the island of Crete since the Second Temple period…
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Mattetiah Spagnolo
Places:
Candia, Venice (Heraklion, Greece)
Date:
1583
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Moses ben Abraham Pescarol’s illuminated scroll of Esther, completed in Ferrara, constitutes one of the oldest and most unusual examples of illustrated manuscripts of this biblical book, which is…
Contributor:
Moses Pescarol
Places:
Ferrara, Papal States (Ferrara, Italy)
Date:
1616