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Scroll of the Book of Esther
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This scroll of Esther from Germany, created for use on the holiday of Purim, is extensively decorated, with illustrations of biblical scenes from the Esther story, as well as various flora and fauna…

Contributor:

Artist Unknown

Places:

Holy Roman Empire (Germany)

Date:

ca. 1630

Subjects:

Illuminated manuscripts, Holidays, Purim, Animals, Music

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture, Ritual Objects, Religion & Theology
Scroll manuscript page with Hebrew text in four columns, with illustrations on top of figures seated talking to each other, working by a tree, and walking; the middle sections feature ladders and people working on trees; the bottom features elephants and rhinoceroses.
Foldout Calendar
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This foldout calendar is a beautifully illuminated feature that appears in a sefer ‘evronot. Works of this genre were Jewish calendar handbooks for calculating the dates of religious holidays and…

Contributor:

Artist Unknown

Places:

Lublin, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Lublin, Poland)

Date:

1552

Subjects:

Illuminated manuscripts, Calendar, Astrology, Animals, Holidays

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture, Science & Philosophy, Religion & Theology
Manuscript calendar page with Hebrew letters in squares, decorated with illustrations of birds and flowers, with castle at the top and dragon at the bottom.
Moses Narboni’s Commentary on Ibn Tufayl’s Ḥay ibn Yaqzan
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Ḥay ibn Yaqẓān, composed by the Muslim philosopher Abū Bakr ibn Tufayl al-Qaysi (1110–1185), relates the story of Ḥay ibn Yaqẓān, literally “Alive, son of Awake,” as he grows up alone on a deserted…

Contributor:

Solomon Norzi

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Date:

1527

Subjects:

Illuminated manuscripts, Philosophy, Animals, Ecology, Death

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture, Science & Philosophy, Literature
Facing-page manuscript with Hebrew text and an illustration of a naked boy sitting next to a deer on bottom margin of left-hand page.
Maḥzor for the Rite of Carpentras
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This maḥzor (holiday prayer book) contains the festival prayers for the whole year, according to the rite of Carpentras, and was copied in Provence. The Jews of the former papal territory of Comtat…

Contributor:

Artist Unknown

Places:

Carpentras, Papal States (Carpentras, France)

Date:

1540/1

Subjects:

Illuminated manuscripts, Prayer, Passover, Folklore, Animals

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture, Religion & Theology, Prayer & Liturgy
Manuscript page with Hebrew text, with some words set apart in rectangular frames, surrounded by border of branches, flowers, and birds, and small illustration of boy and animal with tail in bottom margin.