The psalms in this manuscript are subdivided according to the days
of the week on which they are to be read and, with exception of the
psalms for Friday, these daily sections have decorated monochrome
or multicolored initial word panels. The manuscript has an
architectural title page representing Moses and Aaron standing in
arches. Particularly impressive is the picture at the beginning of
the first Psalm where, following the initial word ashre, on folio
6v is a depiction of King David sitting outside on the terrace of a
palace, playing the harp while looking at an open volume, which
most probably represents his psalms. This Braginsky manuscript has
been copied and decorated by Moses Judah Leib ben Wolf Broda of
Trebitsch, who is also responsible for perhaps the most famous
decorated Hebrew manuscript of the eighteenth century – the Von
Geldern Haggadah of 1723. Including this Braginsky psalter, a total
of seven manuscripts by Moses Judah Leib are known, produced
between 1713-1723. The brown mottled calf binding carries the
emblem of the De Pinto family of Amsterdam tooled in gold on both
the front and the back covers.
Place
Preferred form
Vienna (Austria) (?)
Original form
[Vienna/Amsterdam?] copied and decorated by Moses Judah Leib ben Wolf Broda of Trebitsch
Preferred form
Amsterdam (Netherlands) (?)
Original form
[Vienna/Amsterdam?] copied and decorated by Moses Judah Leib ben Wolf Broda of Trebitsch
Rights
e-codices - Virtual Manuscript Library of Switzerland
