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A Siddur from Parma
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Illustrated title page from a manuscript siddur from Italy according to the Romaniote (Greek) rite, with prayers focused on marriage and birth rituals and customs, as well as the pidyon ha-ben…

Contributor:

Artist Unknown

Places:

Parma, Duchy of Milan (Parma, Italy)

Date:

1766

Subjects:

Prayer, Ritual & observance, Theology

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture, Cartooning & Graphic Art
Manuscript page with Hebrew writing in triangular pattern on top, large Hebrew word in center, some Hebrew text below, and faces drawn on left margin.
Moses Maimonides’ Guide of the Perplexed
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This edition of Moses Maimonides’ Guide of the Perplexed was printed in Sabbioneta, Italy by Cornelio Adelkind for Tobias Foà. The twelfth-century work was an attempt to reconcile Aristotelianism with…

Contributor:

Moses Maimonides, Cornelio Adelkind

Places:

Sabbioneta, Duchy of Mantua (Sabbioneta, Italy)

Date:

1553

Subjects:

Print, Theology, Philosophy

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture, Cartooning & Graphic Art
Printed page of Hebrew text under cornucopia archway flanked by standing figures, and wreath at the bottom.