Showing Results 1 - 9 of 9
Restricted
Image
Contributor:
Artist Unknown
Places:
Padua, Republic of Venice
(Padua, Italy)
Date:
17th Century
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Image
Ornate silver amulet. The Hebrew word Shaddai—another name for God—is etched in the center. Italy, ca. 1750.
Contributor:
Artist Unknown
Places:
Date:
ca. 1750
Categories:
Public Access
Image
Contributor:
Moses Mendez Coutinho
Places:
Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1701
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Text
Circumcision has so peculiar a veneration among the present Jews, that if all other parts of their Religion were to be changed, this like Mount…
Contributor:
Lancelot Addison
Places:
Milston, Kingdom of England
(Milston, United Kingdom)
Date:
1675
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Image
Printed amulet for infant boy. This amulet has a companion, for a female child; however, the pair were separated. The text in the center of the amulet is surrounded by a Baroque design with decorative…
Contributor:
Artist Unknown
Places:
Date:
ca. 1750
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Image
Eighteenth-century German amulet printed with unique designs. The use of the names of the three angels, Sanoi, Sansanoi, and Smangalaf, indicates the use of this amulet as a birth protection for…
Contributor:
Artist Unknown
Places:
Date:
ca. 1750
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Image
Contributor:
Artist Unknown
Places:
Westheim, Holy Roman Empire
(Westheim, Germany)
Date:
ca. 1750
Categories:
Public Access
Image
Silver amulet typical of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Italian Jewish homes. This example is unusual in that it contains an unidentified family coat of arms whose main feature is a rampant lion…
Contributor:
Artist Unknown
Places:
Venice, Republic of Venice
(Venice, Italy)
Date:
ca. 1750
Categories:
Public Access
Image
Printed birth amulet. The decorative borders are composed of printers’ devices and decorations that were used by printers in Fürth (Bavaria), so it is assumed that this amulet was printed in that city…
Contributor:
Artist Unknown
Places:
Fürth, Holy Roman Empire
(Fürth, Germany)
Date:
ca. 1750