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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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ca. 1780
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In the back of a manuscript collection of astronomical texts, which includes one of Abraham ibn Ezra’s works on the use of the astrolabe (a tool for astronomical calculations), is a set of crude but…
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ca. 1629
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Solomon Norzi
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1527
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This elaborate Italian kabbalistic manuscript depicts the inner processes of the divine (the sefirot) in the shape of a tree (in Hebrew, ilan), or tree of life. Visualization plays an important part…
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Early 16th Century
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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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This foldout calendar is a beautifully illuminated feature that appears in a sefer ‘evronot. Works of this genre were Jewish calendar handbooks for calculating the dates of religious holidays and…
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Artist Unknown
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Lublin, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
(Lublin, Poland)
Date:
1552
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Phineas Halevi
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Halberstadt, Holy Roman Empire
(Halbe Metze, Germany)
Date:
1716
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Menasseh Ben Israel, Joseph Solomon Delmedigo
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1629
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Elijah Menaḥem Ḥalfan
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Venice, Republic of Venice
(Venice, Italy)
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1533