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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B274
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    e-codices
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    13th century, 1288
    Language
    Hebrew
    • This is the earliest known manuscript of Moses of Coucy's classic legal code and also the earliest dated
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B173
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    18th century, 1716
    Language
    Hebrew
    • It is noteworthy that not only men, but also women are present.
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B222
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    18th century, 1723
    Language
    Hebrew
    • week on which they are to be read and, with exception of the psalms for Friday, these daily sections have
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B344
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    18th century, 1725
    Language
    Hebrew
    • illustrated the title page, Meschullam Simmel ben Moses from Polná created the other drawings and probably also
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B253
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    e-codices
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    14th century, 15th century, [around 1400]
    Language
    Hebrew
    • As in many other cases, here, too, the controversial passage was omitted by the copyist (f. 19r-v).
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B283
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    e-codices
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    16th century, 1553-1555
    Language
    Italian
    • Reproduced here is a summary (regesta) of six papal briefs from 1518-1537, in which Popes Leo X, Clement
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B317
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    e-codices
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    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
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B67
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    e-codices
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    18th century, [around 1720]
    Language
    Hebrew
    • The left to right sequence of the pages suggests that a Christian artist must have first created the
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B115
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    e-codices
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    14th century, 15th century, [14th–15th century]
    Language
    Hebrew
    • Isaac of Corbeil († 1280) is the author of this halakhic Small Book of Commandments also known as Sefer
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B133
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    e-codices
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    17th century, 1615
    Language
    Hebrew
    • Ari is the Hebrew word for “lion”, but should be understood here as an abbreviation of the copyist’s
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, K40
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    e-codices
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    18th century, 1795
    Language
    Hebrew
    • ketubah decorations since the earliest known ketubot from the Cairo Genizah, the gold letters inscribed here
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B316
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    18th century, 1751
    Language
    Latin
    • The artist used a technique in which text is written in miniscule letters, also known as micrography.
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, K96
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    e-codices
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    18th century, 1759
    Language
    Hebrew
    • The family emblems therefore have no relation to the bridal couple, Nathan Solomon, son of Jacob Samuel
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B119
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    e-codices
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    14th century, second half of the 14th century
    Language
    Hebrew
    • No trace of an original Hillel Codex has survived; it may have been used for the last time for a Pentateuch
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, S17
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    17th century, around 1675
    Language
    Hebrew
    • The scroll also contains some unusual representations.
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B247
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    17th century, ca. 1670-1671
    Language
    Hebrew
    • This manuscript has two such miniatures; above the first of which there is also an illustration of a
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B351
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    18th century, 1741
    Language
    Hebrew
    • text, among them a very rare depiction of a woman only partially immersed in a ritual bath (12v) and also
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, K29
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    18th century, 1789
    Language
    Hebrew
    • made in one of the most important Jewish communities of Italy, the Adriatic seaport of Ancona, which also
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B345
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    e-codices
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    14th century, 1355
    Language
    Hebrew
    • Over the more than 650 years that have passed since this manuscript of the Mishneh Torah was created,
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B57
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    17th century, between 1673 and 1683
    Language
    Hebrew
    • Apart from the daily prayers, this manuscript also contains kabbalistic commentaries and kavvanot (mystical