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Page of Aramaic text decorated with cherubs atop a decorated archway with columns adorned with vines and flowers.

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Ketubah (Amsterdam)

1617

Page of Aramaic text framed by drawing of four columns and gateway with two cornucopias on top, decorated with flowers and vines throughout.

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Ketubah (Rome)

1627

Drawing of circle with many lines forming squares and rectangles within it.

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Paper Astrolabe

ca. 1629

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.

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Scroll of the Book of Esther

ca. 1630

Page of Aramaic text with illustration of pair of hands clasped at top and illustrated vignettes along sides of text depicting wedding scenes, joined by vines and flowers.

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Ketubah (Amsterdam)

Shalom Italia

1648

Broadsheet with Dutch text on left and right margins, with large illustrated map in the middle of many squares and lines. Around the map are five images in squares: a man in hat and moustache, layers of priestly garments, a smaller map, rectangular building, and items of worship such as a candelabrum.

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Broadsheet Accompanying Model of the Tabernacle

Jacob Judah Leon Templo

ca. 1652

Page of Hebrew text decorated with cherubs, trumpets, and flora, and Hebrew verses and a crown at top.

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Rabbinic Ordination Certificate

1677

Manuscript page of Judeo-Persian text with illustration of three angels beneath of tree.

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Ardashir-nāmah (Shāhin-i Shirāzi)

Mowlānā Shāhīn-i Shīrāzī

ca. 1680

Page of Aramaic text surrounded by ornate illustrations, including couple under wedding canopy at the top of the page with many well-dressed people around them and two angels flying overhead, and two women on pedestals on either side of the bottom of the page on either side of a wreath with text inside.

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Ketubah (Hamburg)

1690

Manuscript page with Hebrew text in circular frames arranged as a diagram in the shape of a human head with crown.

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Sefirotic Diagram of the First Man

Natan Hammerschlag

1691

Facing-page manuscript with Latin text on right-hand page surrounded by floral border and man in circular frame on top and bottom of page, and portrait of man on left-hand side surrounded by floral border and two cherubs with man in frames on top and bottom of page.

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Diploma of Doctor of Medicine (University of Padua)

1695

Page of Aramaic text of border decorated with flowers and birds, cherubs holding banner at top, and human figures in upper corners.

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Ketubah (Bayonne)

1705