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De Pinto Psalter
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This decorated psalter was made for Aaron de Joseph de Pinto, a member of the prominent Portuguese Jewish family in Amsterdam. It is a manuscript, copied from a print edition done by David de Castro…

Contributor:

Meir Cohen Belinfante, Isaac Siprut

Places:

Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Date:

1728

Subjects:

Illuminated manuscripts, Prayer & liturgy, Sephardic, Jewish languages

Categories:

Print & book culture, Cartooning & graphic art
Manuscript page of Hebrew text in center framed with decorations and figures and scenes including two cherubs holding a crown at top, a king holding a harp, and a man holding censer, both with crowns above their heads, and figures at bottom.
Haggadah from Mantua, 1560
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This Haggadah from Mantua, published by the Christian printer Giacomo Rufinelli under the supervision of Isaac ben Solomon Bassan, relies heavily on the Prague Haggadah of 1526, with the addition of…

Contributor:

Isaac ben Samuel Bassan, Giacomo Rufinelli

Places:

Mantua, Duchy of Mantua (Mantova, Italy)

Date:

1560

Subjects:

Print, Haggadah, Passover, Christian-Jewish relations, Polemics

Categories:

Print & book culture, Cartooning & graphic art
Facing-page print with left-hand page of Hebrew text with decorative border and woodcut illustration on bottom of man riding ox next to brick building and man playing horn, and right-hand page with Hebrew text surrounded by decorative border including cherubs playing instruments.