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Asher bar Samuel ha-Kohen

17th Century

Asher bar Shmuel Ha-Cohen was a scribe active in Germany in the early seventeenth century.

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‘Evronot Manuscript (Rules for Calculation of the Calendar)

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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…
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