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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

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 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

Manuscript page of Hebrew text above illustration of man on mountain with crowd of people and tents below.

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Haggadah (Amsterdam)

Joseph Leipnik

1740

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

Page of Hebrew text with portrait of man with curly hair in center of page, surrounded by round frame with Hebrew words inside it.

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Self-Portrait of Abraham ben Shabbetai Kohen

Abraham ben Shabbetai Kohen

1719

Bronze mortar decorated with a seven-branched candelabrum, flanked with the Hebrew letters mem and resh.

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Bronze Physician’s Mortar

Servius de Levis

16th Century

Page of four pencil drawings: a half-naked man posing, an animal figure with wings underneath figure with halo, man and angels, and soldier fighting against smaller figure.

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Four Biblical Scenes

Rembrandt van Rijn

1655

Beginning of scroll with Hebrew text arranged in columned archways and decorated figures above and beside each column.

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Esther Scroll (Amsterdam)

Shalom Italia

1640

Portrait with circular border of seated older woman wearing wimple and stern expression and holding book in right hand, with Portuguese and Hebrew text below and around portrait.

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Portrait of Simcha Vaz (1582–1643), painted by her son, Moses Belmonte

Moses Belmonte

1642

Printed page with Hebrew text in center framed by two standing figures on either side, and six circular images with scenes of figures and buildings.

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Haggadah (Amsterdam)

Joseph ben Abraham Athias | Abraham Bar Jacob

1695