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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

Andrea Marelli

1573

Page of Aramaic text framed by drawing of four columns and gateway with two cornucopias on top, decorated with flowers and vines throughout.

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Ketubah (Rome)

1627

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

Broadsheet with Dutch text on left and right margins, with large illustrated map in the middle of many squares and lines. Around the map are five images in squares: a man in hat and moustache, layers of priestly garments, a smaller map, rectangular building, and items of worship such as a candelabrum.

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Broadsheet Accompanying Model of the Tabernacle

Jacob Judah Leon Templo

ca. 1652

Page of Aramaic text of border decorated with flowers and birds, cherubs holding banner at top, and human figures in upper corners.

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Ketubah (Bayonne)

1705

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

Shabbetai Sheftel Auerbach

1706

Page of Aramaic text decorated with miniatures, cherubs, and vines surrounding text, and triangular bottom.

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Ketubah (Rome)

1734

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 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 (Polna)

Meshulam Zimmel ben Moses of Polna

1719

Manuscript page of Dutch text framed in lined border with illustrations of birds and flowers on top and Dutch words around frame.

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Dutch Translation of Penitential Prayers and Psalms

David de Aron Uziel Cardoso

1714

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

Nathan ben Samson of Meseritsch

1728

Manuscript page of concentric circles with Hebrew words and stars in the outer circles, and Hebrew text on top and bottom of page.

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Illustration of the (Aristotelian) Cosmos

David Ganz

18th Century