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Manuscript page with Hebrew text above illustration of city walls with central domed building.

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Map of the Temple in Jerusalem

1564

Manuscript page with Hebrew text above illustration of man on horse and man blowing horn walking into a city gate with flowers and two smaller figures below.

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Maḥzor

1662

Drawing of circle with many lines forming squares and rectangles within it.

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Paper Astrolabe

ca. 1629

Page of Hebrew text with pointed top and floral border.

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Karaite Ketubah (Crimea)

1719

Manuscript page with drawing of building complex with inner courtyards.

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Synagogue in K’ai-fêng (Kaifeng, China)

1722

Manuscript page with Hebrew text surrounded by illustrations of lions and man with sword at top, rulers on either side of text in the middle, and people seated at dining table at bottom of page.

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Haggadah

1719

Manuscript page of drawings of bird and plants on top and Yiddish text below.

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Yiddish Translation of the Bible

16th Century

Manuscript scroll page with Hebrew text and decorated border with illustrations of cherubs, faces, animals, ribbons, and flowers.

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Scroll of the Book of Esther

1573

Scroll manuscript page with Hebrew text in four columns, with illustrations on top of figures seated talking to each other, working by a tree, and walking; the middle sections feature ladders and people working on trees; the bottom features elephants and rhinoceroses.

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Scroll of the Book of Esther

ca. 1630

Page with Hebrew text of illustrations of men in turbans on either side of the text; cherub, vines, and birds at top of page; and six men in prayer shawls walking to building at bottom of page.

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Klausen Book of Psalms

1706

Page of Hebrew text surrounded by decorative border with four well-dressed figures on top.

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Scroll of the Book of Esther

1618

Printed page with Hebrew and Yiddish text in center flanked by two figures with decorative borders at top and bottom, and text wrapping around margins of page.

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Nathan ben Samson of Meseritsch (scribe and artist), Psalms

1728