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Facing-page Hebrew manuscript with charts with Hebrew letters on left side, and geometric drawings on right side.

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Toledot Adam (The Generations of Adam)

Elijah Loanz

1734

Manuscript with illustrations of tombs and Hebrew text.

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Tombs in the Holy Land

16th Century

Facing-page manuscript with Hebrew text and an illustration of a naked boy sitting next to a deer on bottom margin of left-hand page.

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Moses Narboni’s Commentary on Ibn Tufayl’s Ḥay ibn Yaqzan

Solomon Norzi

1527

Manuscript page with Hebrew text, decorative motifs in margins, illustration of jaguar on top of page, and illustration of lion under tree on bottom.

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Maḥzor

Eliezer ben Abraham of Pisa

1531

Manuscript page with Hebrew writing arranged in the form of a tree, with drawings of candelabrum, cherubs, and table in center, and drawing of dragon and figures on bottom left of the page.

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Sefirotic Tree

Elijah Menaḥem Ḥalfan

1533

Manuscript page with Hebrew text, with some words set apart in rectangular frames, surrounded by border of branches, flowers, and birds, and small illustration of boy and animal with tail in bottom margin.

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Maḥzor for the Rite of Carpentras

1540/1

Manuscript calendar page with Hebrew letters in squares, decorated with illustrations of birds and flowers, with castle at the top and dragon at the bottom.

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Foldout Calendar

1552

Manuscript page with Hebrew text in a diamond shape under an illustration of an archway, decorated with heads and flowers.

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Maḥzor

Isaac Lankosh of Kraków

1560

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

Manuscript page with Hebrew text in center, large decorated Hebrew word at the top of the page next to illustration of figure at top right pouring wine, and illustration of people seated at table at bottom of page.

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Haggadah (Crete)

Mattetiah Spagnolo

1583

Manuscript scroll page of Hebrew text with illustrated figures, one on horseback, on top.

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Scroll of the Book of Esther

Moses Pescarol

1616

Page of Aramaic text decorated with cherubs atop a decorated archway with columns adorned with vines and flowers.

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Ketubah (Amsterdam)

1617