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Moses ben Abraham Pescarol’s illuminated scroll of Esther, completed in Ferrara, constitutes one of the oldest examples of an illustrated manuscript of this biblical book, which is chanted on the…
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Moses Pescarol
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Ferrara, Papal States (Ferrara, Italy)
Date:
1618
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Moses ben Abraham Pescarol’s illuminated scroll of Esther, completed in Ferrara, constitutes one of the oldest and most unusual examples of illustrated manuscripts of this biblical book, which is…
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Moses Pescarol
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Ferrara, Papal States (Ferrara, Italy)
Date:
1616
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These are marginal illustrations found in a manuscript siddur from Italy according to the Romaniote rite, with prayers focused on marriage and birth rituals and customs, as well as the pidyon ha-ben…
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Artist Unknown
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Parma, Duchy of Milan (Parma, Italy)
Date:
ca. 1500
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Like Torah scrolls, the scroll of the biblical book of Esther, read ritually in the synagogue on the holiday of Purim, must be completely unadorned. However, in the sixteenth century, for reasons…
Contributor:
Andrea Marelli
Places:
Rome, Papal States (Rome, Italy)
Date:
1573
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This page illustrating the blowing of the shofar on Rosh Hashanah is from a Yiddish book of customs from Italy. By the sixteenth century, Yiddish-speaking Ashkenazic Jews were the largest groups of…
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Artist Unknown
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1500