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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
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    • This codex contains prayers, blessings and poems for a wedding ceremony, following the custom of 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
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    • This manuscript, B115, is the latest of the three manuscripts in the Braginsky Collection (also B240
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B217
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    e-codices
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    18th century, 1751
    Language
    Hebrew
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    • the Birkhot ha-Nehenin ("Blessings over Enjoyments"), the Shalosh Mitzvot Nashim ("Three Commandments
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B62
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    e-codices
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    18th century, 1728
    Language
    Hebrew
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    • In 1728 Meir Cohen Belinfante copied this decorated psalter from the 1670 printed edition by the Amsterdam
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, S13
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    e-codices
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    18th century, 1746
    Language
    Hebrew
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    • Scenes from the Esther narrative are positioned beneath each of the nineteen columns of text.
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B57
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    e-codices
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    17th century, between 1673 and 1683
    Language
    Hebrew
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    • In the kabbalistic school of Safed (Upper Galilee), the mystical aspect of prayer, as “the vehicle of
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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
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    • 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, B242
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    e-codices
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    17th century, [17th century]
    Language
    Hebrew
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    • Joseph (Juspa), shammes of Worms (1604-1678), recorded the everyday life, the rites and the customs of
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, K29
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    e-codices
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    18th century, 1789
    Language
    Hebrew
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    • This marriage contract was made in one of the most important Jewish communities of Italy, the Adriatic
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B26
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    e-codices
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    15th century, [last quarter of the fifteenth century]
    Language
    Hebrew
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    • This manuscript contains the full text of the Pentateuch and haftarot (weekly readings from the Prophets
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B125
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    e-codices
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    15th century, [around 1470]
    Language
    Hebrew, Yiddish
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    • This manuscript contains the seven chapters of the aphorisms of Hippocrates in the Hebrew translation
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B285
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    18th century, 1796
    Language
    Hebrew
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    • The Hijman Binger Haggadah is a typical example of Hebrew manuscript decoration in Central and Northern
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B222
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    e-codices
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    18th century, 1723
    Language
    Hebrew
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    • The psalms in this manuscript are subdivided according to the days of the week on which they are to be
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B243 Vol. 2
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    e-codices
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    15th century, 1494
    Language
    Hebrew
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    • At the end of the last volume (Vol. 4) of this Hebrew Bible with Masoretic comments (textual criticism
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, K41
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    e-codices
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    18th century, 1798
    Language
    Hebrew
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    • The ornamentation of this ketubah, which commemorates a wedding between two important families of the
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B243 Vol. 4
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    e-codices
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    15th century, 1491
    Language
    Hebrew
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    • At the end of the last volume (Vol. 4) of this Hebrew Bible with Masoretic comments (textual criticism
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B243 Vol. 1
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    15th century, 1494
    Language
    Hebrew
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    • At the end of the last volume (Vol. 4) of this Hebrew Bible with Masoretic comments (textual criticism
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B250
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    e-codices
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    13th century, 14th century, [late 13th or early 14th century]
    Language
    Hebrew
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    • The text is divided into 12 sections of a total of 372 paragraphs; its content addresses the rules concerning
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B49
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    e-codices
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    16th century, 15th century, [ca. 1500]
    Language
    Hebrew
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    • The Roman rite, generally known as Nussah Roma, is the oldest order of prayer outside the ancient lands
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B235
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    e-codices
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    18th century, 1730
    Language
    Yiddish, Hebrew
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    • The fast day Yom Kippur Katan has its origin in the holiday of Rosh Hodesh, which in biblical times marked