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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 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

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

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

Newspaper page with two columns of text in Spanish and crest with lion on top.

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Gazeta de Amsterdam (Amsterdam Gazette)

David de Castro Tartas

1675

Manuscript page with Hebrew text in middle surrounded by border of geometric shapes.

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Sefer ha-kavanot (Kabbalistic Intentions in Prayer and Performance of Precepts)

David ben Aaron Ibn Ḥasin

1737

Manuscript page with Hebrew writing and Latin signatures underneath, with seal and ribbon on right side.

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Letter Hailing Shabbetai Tzvi as the Messiah

Eliah ben Michael Judah Leon

1666

Printed page with Hebrew and Italian text.

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Me‘on ha-sho’alim (Abode of the Supplicants)

Devorà Ascarelli

1601

Photograph depicting man in kippah, gloves, and glasses and holding a pen examining a Torah scroll upon which sits two tefillin boxes.

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Scribe, N.Y.C.

Seymour Edelstein

1988

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Diary

Meir ben Ephraim of Padua

1541–1580