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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B257
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    18th century, 1719
    Language
    Hebrew
    • Vienna, copied and illustrated by Aaron Wolf Herlingen [and Meschullam Simmel from Polná]
    • Hertz ben Leib Darmstadt of Frankfurt am Main and contains pen drawings by Meshulam Zimmel ben Moses from
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B284
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    18th century, 1725
    Language
    Hebrew, Yiddish
    • Vienna, copied and illustrated by Aaron Wolf Herlingen [and Meschullam Simmel from Polná]
    • The area below the title shows the Israelites wandering through the desert and manna falling from heaven
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, S54
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    18th century, [ca. 1740]
    Language
    Hebrew
    • Vienna, copied and illustrated by Aaron Wolf Herlingen [and Meschullam Simmel from Polná]
    • one with birds at the bottom, text columns are interspersed with eight elegant full-length characters from
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B173
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    18th century, 1716
    Language
    Hebrew
    • Vienna, copied and illustrated by Aaron Wolf Herlingen [and Meschullam Simmel from Polná]
    • The titel of this mohel book (circumcision book) from 1716 is Book of the Lord’s Mystery with the [commentary
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B344
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    18th century, 1725
    Language
    Hebrew
    • Vienna, copied and illustrated by Aaron Wolf Herlingen [and Meschullam Simmel from Polná]
    • Aaron Wolf Herlingen wrote and illustrated the title page, Meschullam Simmel ben Moses from Polná created
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B253
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    14th century, 15th century, [around 1400]
    Language
    Hebrew
    • However, he did not expurgate a single passage, but merely signed the last page of the manuscript (f.
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, S12
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    18th century, around 1775
    Language
    Hebrew
    • However, in some communities this led to the practice of creating an unattached sheet featuring the three
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, K91
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    17th century, 1695
    Language
    Hebrew
    • Dona Rachel, daughter of Abraham Enriques Da Costa, were members of a families of religious refugees from
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, K96
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    18th century, 1759
    Language
    Hebrew
    • Like the 1753 ketubah from Padua (K76), this contract makes use of an older frame.
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B251
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    14th century, 15th century, [14th/15th century]
    Language
    Hebrew
    • Sefer ha-Shem ("Book of the Divine Name") or Sefer ha-Iggulim ("Book of Circles"); in this manuscript, however
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B67
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    18th century, [around 1720]
    Language
    Hebrew
    • 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, 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, S17
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    17th century, around 1675
    Language
    Hebrew
    • triumphal arch reminiscent of Roman Triumphal arches constructed for royal festivities throughout Europe from
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B103
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    17th century, [before 1646]
    Language
    Hebrew
    • What is known comes from his own works, some 550 poems and a few other texts.
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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, 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, S24
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    18th century, around 1750
    Language
    Hebrew
    • Lower Saxony and exemplifies a type of folk art decoration and color palette found in other megillot from
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B62
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    18th century, 1728
    Language
    Hebrew
    • In 1728 Meir Cohen Belinfante copied this decorated psalter from the 1670 printed edition by the Amsterdam
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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
    • This collection of cosmological treatises contains excerpts from a larger manuscript, presumably written
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, S8
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    17th century, 18th century, Scroll: Italy, 18th century / Case: Venice or Rome, 17th century
    Language
    Hebrew
    • Emerging from a vase at the center is a large naturalistic flowering wine with scrolling stems and blossoms