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Song at the Sea (Exodus 15), Leningrad Codex
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Song at the Sea (Exodus 15), Leningrad Codex, 1009 CE. The photo shows the first fourteen verses of the poem (Exodus 15:1–14) and a few prose verses from the end of the preceding chapter. The text of…

Places:

Cairo, Egypt

Date:

1009

Subjects:

Poetry, Scribes, Scholarship, Writing, Passover

Categories:

Poetry, Print & Book Culture, Literature, Visual & Material Culture
Manuscript page of Hebrew text arranged in verses.
Haggadah
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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…

Contributor:

Mattetiah Spagnolo

Places:

Candia, Venice (Heraklion, Greece)

Date:

1583

Subjects:

Illuminated manuscripts, Haggadah, Holidays, Passover, Writing

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture, Religion & Theology
Manuscript page with Hebrew text in center, large decorated Hebrew word at the top of the page next to illustration of figure at top right pouring wine, and illustration of people seated at table at bottom of page.