‘Evronot Manuscript (Rules for Calculation of the Calendar)
Asher bar Samuel ha-Kohen
Leyb ben Samuel Oppenheim
1624
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Sifre ‘evronot—manuals for calculating the Jewish calendar, including leap years and holidays—were a popular genre of Ashkenazic illustrated manuscripts in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, although we also have evidence for them in the sixteenth century. This page with illustrations of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden and a man holding scales is from a Hebrew manuscript that was written in Frankfurt am Main.
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The National Library of Israel, Jerusalem, Ms. Heb. 8°3247.
Published in: The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, vol. 5.
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