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Me‘on ha-sho’alim (Abode of the Supplicants)
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This is the title page of Me‘on ha-sho’alim (L’abitacolo degli oranti; Abode of the Supplicants), by the poet and translator Devorà Ascarelli, a member of the Catalan community in Rome. Me‘on ha-sho…

Contributor:

Devorà Ascarelli

Places:

Venice, Venice (Venice, Italy)

Date:

1601

Subjects:

Print, Women, Writing, Poetry, Translation

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Visual & Material Culture, Prayer & Liturgy, Liturgical Poetry
Printed page with Hebrew and Italian text.
Yiddish Translation of the Bible
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This manuscript page of Deuteronomy 1:1–7 is from a translation of the Hebrew Bible into Yiddish, from Italy. It is decorated with two storks and an ornate chapter heading with the opening word of the…

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Unknown

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Date:

16th Century

Subjects:

Illuminated manuscripts, Bible, Translation, Jewish languages, Yiddish

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture, Religion & Theology
Manuscript page of drawings of bird and plants on top and Yiddish text below.
Thesaurus Antiquitatum Sacrarum I
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This is the frontispiece to the first volume of Blasio Ugolino’s Thesaurus Antiquitatum Sacrarum, a thirty-four-volume collection of Latin treatises on Jewish customs, laws, institutions, and sacred…

Contributor:

Blasio Ugolino, Giovanni Cattini

Places:

Venice, Venice (Venice, Italy)

Date:

1744

Subjects:

Print, Translation, Language and linguistics, Christian-Jewish relations

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture, Religion & Theology
Printed page with male figures in various poses with one pointing to a sculpture in the background of seated figure on pedestal with Latin text on it.