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Venice Haggadah
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This Haggadah from Venice was commissioned by Moses ben Gerson Parenzo, the last of the Parenzo Hebrew printers, and issued at the Caleoni press on behalf of the Bragadini family. This page shows the…

Contributor:

Moses ben Gershon Parenzo

Places:

Venice, Venice (Venice, Italy)

Date:

1629

Subjects:

Print, Haggadah, Passover, Holidays, Art

Categories:

Print & book culture, Cartooning & graphic art
Printed page with Hebrew and Judeo-Italian text in center, and side columns of Hebrew text, with decorated archway above columns and illustration of groups of men on the bottom of the page.
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:

Print & book culture, Cartooning & graphic art
Printed page of Hebrew text under cornucopia archway flanked by standing figures, and wreath at the bottom.