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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B242
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    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, B328
    Collection
    e-codices
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    18th century, 1725
    Language
    Hebrew
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    • On the title page the artist did not record his name, but did note that the manuscript was created in
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, S58
    Collection
    e-codices
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    18th century, 19th century, ca. 1900
    Language
    Hebrew
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    • This Esther scroll, which combines Indian and Western traditions in a unique way, contains twenty elaborately
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    Vatican. Biblioteca apostolica vaticana, Vat.ebr.219
    Collection
    Heidelberg University Library, Bibliotheca Palatina
    Library
    Vatikan, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana
    Date
    15. Jh.
    Language
    heb
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    • 63r-v - Short commentary on the Divine Name of forty-two letters
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B133
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    17th century, 1615
    Language
    Hebrew
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    • of the leading figures of the kabbalistic movement in the city of Safed (Upper Galilee), which became
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, S7
    Collection
    e-codices
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    18th century, second half of the 18th century
    Language
    Hebrew
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    • The Esther story in this megillah (pl. megillot) isn't presented as an historic drama, but rather as
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B173
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    18th century, 1716
    Language
    Hebrew
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    • ben Judah Leib of Trebitsch (Moravia), who was active in Vienna.
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, K41
    Collection
    e-codices
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    18th century, 1798
    Language
    Hebrew
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    • Roman ghetto, Toscano and Di Segni, reflects the golden age of ketubah decoration in Rome.
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B318
    Collection
    e-codices
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    1728
    Language
    Hebrew
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    • This thin little book with a gilt embossed leather binding contains the prayers for the celebration on
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B251
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    14th century, 15th century, [14th/15th century]
    Language
    Hebrew
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    • Sefirot, the emanation of the Divine Being.
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B67
    Collection
    e-codices
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    18th century, [around 1720]
    Language
    Hebrew
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    • Additional poems are by a variety of poets, some by writers of the Hebrew Golden Age in medieval Spain
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, K70
    Collection
    e-codices
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    18th century, 1765
    Language
    Hebrew
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    • daughter of Gedaliah Senigaglia (Senigallia) names a dowry of 1,800 pezze da ocho reali – 1,200 of which in
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B125
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    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, B49
    Collection
    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, B52
    Collection
    e-codices
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    18th century, 1750
    Language
    Hebrew
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    • The ceremony, depicted on f. 10r, takes place in a synagogue.
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, S24
    Collection
    e-codices
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    18th century, around 1750
    Language
    Hebrew
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    • 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
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    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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    Munich. Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Cod. hebr. 36
    Collection
    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
    Library
    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
    Date
    1500
    Language
    http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/iso639-2/heb
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    • art of calculation), one of the most valuable Hebrew codices in the Bavarian State Library, is arranged
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B252
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    15th century, [last third of the 15th century]
    Language
    Hebrew
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    • The book Minhagim ("Religious Customs") is attributed to Samuel of Ulm, although the authorship is not
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, K68
    Collection
    e-codices
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    18th century, 1748
    Language
    Hebrew
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    • The bridal couple mentioned in this marriage contract, Dona Sarah, daughter of Jacob Guttieres Pegna