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Klausen Book of Psalms
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According to the colophon, the scribe in Prague who produced the Klausen Book of Psalms, Shabbetai Sheftel ben Zalman Auerbach (d. 1738), was descended from a family expelled from Vienna in 1669/70…

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Shabbetai Sheftel Auerbach

Places:

Prague, Holy Roman Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)

Date:

1706

Subjects:

Illuminated manuscripts, Bible, Poetry, Writing, Artists

Categories:

Print & book culture, Biblical poetry
Page with Hebrew text of illustrations of men in turbans on either side of the text; cherub, vines, and birds at top of page; and six men in prayer shawls walking to building at bottom of page.
Nathan ben Samson of Meseritsch (scribe and artist), Psalms
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This elaborately decorated title page is from a book of Psalms created by the scribe Nathan ben Samson in Gross Meseritsch, Moravia (today Velké Meziříčí, Czech Republic). On the left is Aaron in his…

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Nathan ben Samson of Meseritsch

Places:

Gross Meseritsch, Holy Roman Empire (Velké Meziříčí, Czech Republic)

Date:

1728

Subjects:

Illuminated manuscripts, Bible, Artists, Art

Categories:

Print & book culture, Cartooning & graphic art
Printed page with Hebrew and Yiddish text in center flanked by two figures with decorative borders at top and bottom, and text wrapping around margins of page.