‘Evronot Manuscript (Rules for Calculation of the Calendar)

Asher bar Samuel ha-Kohen

Leyb ben Samuel Oppenheim

1624

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.

Credits

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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