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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, S24
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    18th century, around 1750
    Language
    Hebrew
    • This eighteenth-century megillah was created in Lower Saxony and exemplifies a type of folk art decoration
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, K29
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    18th century, 1789
    Language
    Hebrew
    • This marriage contract was made in one of the most important Jewish communities of Italy, the Adriatic
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B252
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    15th century, [last third of the 15th century]
    Language
    Hebrew
    • The book Minhagim ("Religious Customs") is attributed to Samuel of Ulm, although the authorship is not
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, K68
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    18th century, 1748
    Language
    Hebrew
    • The bridal couple mentioned in this marriage contract, Dona Sarah, daughter of Jacob Guttieres Pegna
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, K91
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    17th century, 1695
    Language
    Hebrew
    • Abraham Enriques Da Costa, were members of a families of religious refugees from Spain and Portugal in
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B284
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    18th century, 1725
    Language
    Hebrew, Yiddish
    • manuscript is a masterpiece of Jewish book art by Aaron Wolf Herlingen, an artist born around 1700 in
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B247
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    17th century, ca. 1670-1671
    Language
    Hebrew
    • Many so-called Sifre evoronot ("Books of calculation") emerged in the 17th and 18th centuries.
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B345
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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, B351
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    18th century, 1741
    Language
    Hebrew
    • Until it was acquired by the Braginsky Collection, this little book with the Birkat ha-mason from 1741
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B93
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    14th century, [second half of the 14th century (around 1391?)]
    Language
    Hebrew
    • same scribe Moses, which now is part of the Schoenberg Collection at the University of Pennsylvania
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B222
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    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
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B104
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    18th century, [second half of the 18th century]
    Language
    Hebrew
    • This manuscript contains one of the four autographs of Elijah ben Solomon Zalman, known as the Vilna
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B217
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    18th century, 1751
    Language
    Hebrew
    • In addition to the Seder Birkat ha-Mazon ("Grace after Meals"), this mid-18th century manuscript contains
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B250
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    13th century, 14th century, [late 13th or early 14th century]
    Language
    Hebrew
    • -1297) contains one of the first attempts of codifying Jewish religious law in Italy and of presenting
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, S54
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    18th century, [ca. 1740]
    Language
    Hebrew
    • This scroll contains one of the most finely executed series of illustrations to be found in decorated
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B26
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    15th century, [last quarter of the fifteenth century]
    Language
    Hebrew
    • This manuscript contains the full text of the Pentateuch and haftarot (weekly readings from the Prophets
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B257
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    18th century, 1719
    Language
    Hebrew
    • The anonymous hymn of praise to the Creator Perek schira has been preserved in hundreds of manuscripts
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B259
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    15th century, last third of the 15th century
    Language
    Hebrew
    • This Miscellany for Life Cycle Events from the last third of the 15th century was probably a wedding
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B332
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    18th century, 1755
    Language
    Latin
    • Until 1800, the University of Padua was the most important center for Jewish students, whereas the University
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B124
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    14th century, 15th century, [end of the 14th/first half of the 15th century]
    Language
    Hebrew
    • This manuscript by Jacob ben Asher (son of the rabbi and codifier Asher ben Jehiel) contains one of the