29 results

  • Thumbnail
    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, S8
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    17th century, 18th century, Scroll: Italy, 18th century / Case: Venice or Rome, 17th century
    Language
    Hebrew
    • Jewish ceremonial objects crafted of gold, such as this Esther scroll case, are exceptionally rare since
  • Thumbnail
    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B331
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    17th century
    Language
    Hebrew
    • In addition to the title page, which is decorated with a Renaissance portal, there are eleven illustrations
  • Thumbnail
    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, S58
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    18th century, 19th century, ca. 1900
    Language
    Hebrew
    • The figures in the scroll are depicted in a mixture of contemporary, Western and non-Western clothing
  • Thumbnail
    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève, Comites Latentes 69
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève
    Date
    18th century, 19th century, 1756 and 18th-19th century
    Language
    Hebrew, Yiddish
    • thirty dated manuscripts that have survived until today, of which, however, only 17, including CL 69, are
  • Thumbnail
    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B67
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    18th century, [around 1720]
    Language
    Hebrew
    • Additional poems are by a variety of poets, some by writers of the Hebrew Golden Age in medieval Spain
  • Thumbnail
    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B222
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    18th century, 1723
    Language
    Hebrew
    • The psalms in this manuscript are subdivided according to the days of the week on which they are to be
  • Thumbnail
    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B317
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    18th century, 1739
    Language
    Hebrew
    • The characteristics of Joseph ben David’s illustrations, whose work is well-known, are rendered here
  • Thumbnail
    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B284
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    18th century, 1725
    Language
    Hebrew, Yiddish
    • About 40 manuscripts signed by him are extant today.
  • Thumbnail
    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, S7
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    18th century, second half of the 18th century
    Language
    Hebrew
    • Lively figures, several shown strolling with walking sticks in hand and others gesturing, are interspersed
  • Thumbnail
    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B115
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    14th century, 15th century, [14th–15th century]
    Language
    Hebrew
    • The glosses are the work of Moses of Zurich, who lived in Zurich in the middle of the fourteenth century
  • Thumbnail
    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, S54
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    18th century, [ca. 1740]
    Language
    Hebrew
    • between a foliate border with animals at the top and a similar one with birds at the bottom, text columns are
  • Thumbnail
    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, S13
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    18th century, 1746
    Language
    Hebrew
    • The arches are surmounted by a balustrade that supports flowering urns, blank medallions, floral scrollwork
  • Thumbnail
    Utopia, armarium codicum bibliophilorum, cod. 6 (JUD040)
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Utopia, armarium codicum bibliophilorum
    Date
    14th century, 1st half of the 14th century
    Language
    Hebrew
    • These micrographic elements are sometimes enlivened in the lower margins of the pages (about 70 occurrences
  • Thumbnail
    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. heb. 4
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève
    Date
    17th century, around 1641
    Language
    Hebrew
    • He is also the creator of numerous other engraved Esther scrolls that are held in special collections
  • Thumbnail
    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, K41
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    18th century, 1798
    Language
    Hebrew
    • The design in the inner and the outer frames are surrounded by minuscule square Hebrew letters, presenting
  • Thumbnail
    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. heb. 10
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève
    Date
    14th century
    Language
    Hebrew
    • The She'elot Tiviot, translated from Arabic into Hebrew by Moïse Ibn Tibbon (died ca. 1283), are especially
  • Thumbnail
    Basel. Pharmazie-Historisches Museum der Universität Basel, Cod. V1895
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Basel. Pharmazie-Historisches Museum der Universität Basel
    Date
    17th century, ca. 1612-1630
    Language
    Ancient Greek, French, Latin, Hebrew, German
    • In some cases, they are splendidly illustrated.
  • Thumbnail
    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B28
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    18th century, 1795
    Language
    Hebrew
    • In this manuscript, these days and their corresponding numbers, are inscribed in 49 quatrefoils.
  • Thumbnail
    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, K68
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    18th century, 1748
    Language
    Hebrew
    • daughter of Jacob Guttieres Pegna (Peña) and David, son of the late Benjamin Racah (or Raccah), both are
  • Thumbnail
    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B250
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    13th century, 14th century, [late 13th or early 14th century]
    Language
    Hebrew
    • prayers and the laws for Shabbat, holidays and feasts, in addition to other halakhic subjects, which are