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Faces decorating a siddur
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These are marginal illustrations found in a manuscript siddur from Italy according to the Romaniote rite, with prayers focused on marriage and birth rituals and customs, as well as the pidyon ha-ben…

Contributor:

Artist Unknown

Places:

Parma, Duchy of Milan (Parma, Italy)

Date:

ca. 1500

Subjects:

Holidays, Passover, Humor, Illuminated manuscripts

Categories:

Cartooning & graphic art
Three drawings of faces with floral designs.
A Woman Drawing Water from a Well
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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…

Contributor:

Artist Unknown

Places:

Holy Roman Empire (Germany)

Date:

1619–1624

Subjects:

Women, Agriculture, Profession, Family, Illuminated manuscripts

Categories:

Print & book culture, Cartooning & graphic art
Manuscript page with illustration of woman drawing water from a well as another individual stands behind her with a pitcher of water on head, and Hebrew text above.
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.