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The Harrison Miscellany is an early eighteenth-century codex of sixty leaves featuring delicate gouache illustrations and Hebrew texts. Each illustration (likely executed by a Venetian, non-Jewish…
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Corfu, Republic of Venice
(Corfu, Greece)
Date:
ca. 1720
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Artist Unknown
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Candia, Republic of Venice
(Heraklion, Greece)
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1500–1549
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Elijah Menaḥem Ḥalfan
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Venice, Republic of Venice
(Venice, Italy)
Date:
1533
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Moses Bili ben Judah
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Candia, Republic of Venice
(Heraklion, Greece)
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1614
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Abraham ben Shabbetai Kohen
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Venice, Republic of Venice
(Venice, Italy)
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1719
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Nicolas de Nicolay
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Constantinople, Ottoman Empire
(Istanbul, Turkey)
Date:
1568
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This rabbinic ordination certificate granted to Judah ben Eliezer Briel was printed as a broadside in Venice and signed by prominent Venetian rabbis. It certifies his learning and his fitness to…
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Artist Unknown
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Venice, Republic of Venice
(Venice, Italy)
Date:
1677
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This diploma of Doctor of Medicine was awarded to Jacob Mahler by the University of Padua, Italy. Mahler, born in Bingen-on-Rhine, Germany, studied medicine and philosophy, and in 1695 was awarded a…
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Artist Unknown
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Padua, Republic of Venice
(Padua, Italy)
Date:
1695
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These depictions of Jewish women from Adrianople (present day Edirne, Turkey) is from a travelogue by French geographer Nicolas Nicolay, who is believed to have done his own illustrations. Considered…
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Nicolas de Nicolay
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Venice, Republic of Venice
(Venice, Italy)
Date:
1585