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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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    • 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, B259
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    15th century, last third of the 15th century
    Language
    Hebrew
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    • Immediately following the contract, there is a depiction of a bridal couple (f. 10v).
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B331
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    17th century
    Language
    Hebrew
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    • In addition to the title page, which is decorated with a Renaissance portal, there are eleven illustrations
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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
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    • He was revered during his lifetime already and is considered the most important scholar among Lithuanian
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, K41
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    18th century, 1798
    Language
    Hebrew
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    • The decorative frame is divided into inner and outer borders.
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B28
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    18th century, 1795
    Language
    Hebrew
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    • The "Counting of the Omer" is the ritual counting of the 49 days between Passover and Shavuot, the Feast
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B344
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    18th century, 1725
    Language
    Hebrew
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    • This miniature prayer book is the result of a unique collaboration of two of the most eminent Viennese
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B283
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    16th century, 1553-1555
    Language
    Italian
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    • 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, B351
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    18th century, 1741
    Language
    Hebrew
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    • He is known as one of the most productive Jewish manuscript artists in Northern Germany.
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B62
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    18th century, 1728
    Language
    Hebrew
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    • At the end of the manuscript, there is a text by the corrector, Isaac Saruk, who praised the precision
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B133
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    17th century, 1615
    Language
    Hebrew
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    • 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, B243 Vol. 3
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    15th century, 1491
    Language
    Hebrew
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    • the end of the last volume (Vol. 4) of this Hebrew Bible with Masoretic comments (textual criticism) is
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B67
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    18th century, [around 1720]
    Language
    Hebrew
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    • This manuscript is of great significance due to a cycle of sixty full-page illustrations from the Book
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B235
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    18th century, 1730
    Language
    Yiddish, Hebrew
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    • In contrast to many others, this exemplar is decorated with an illustrated title page.
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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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    • the end of the last volume (Vol. 4) of this Hebrew Bible with Masoretic comments (textual criticism) is
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B243 Vol. 4
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    15th century, 1491
    Language
    Hebrew
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    • the end of the last volume (Vol. 4) of this Hebrew Bible with Masoretic comments (textual criticism) is
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B243 Vol. 2
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    15th century, 1494
    Language
    Hebrew
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    • the end of the last volume (Vol. 4) of this Hebrew Bible with Masoretic comments (textual criticism) is