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    Manchester. The John Rylands Library, Gaster Hebrew MS 21
    Collection
    Manchester Digital Collections
    Library
    The John Rylands Library
    Language
    yid, heb, lat, ger
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    • see e.g. folios 15a and 16a).
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    Manchester. The John Rylands Library, Hebrew MS 39
    Collection
    Manchester Digital Collections
    Library
    The John Rylands Library
    Language
    heb, yid, lad
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    • Yosef ben David, of Leipnik
    • Gold-tooled text on spine reading "BOOK / OF THE / PASSOVER / AND HIST / OF KING / PHARAOH / WRITTEN
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B262
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    18th century, 1730
    Language
    Hebrew, Yiddish
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    • [Central or Northern Europe], copied and decorated by Nathan ben Simson of Mezeritsch
    • [Central or Northern Europe], copied and decorated by Nathan ben Simson of Mezeritsch
    • This Passover Haggadah with a Yiddish translation of the hymn Had Gadya (f. 23r) was copied and illustrated
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B235
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    18th century, 1730
    Language
    Yiddish, Hebrew
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    • Pressburg, Judah Leib ben Meir of Glogau
    • The fast day Yom Kippur Katan has its origin in the holiday of Rosh Hodesh, which in biblical times marked
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B284
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    18th century, 1725
    Language
    Hebrew, Yiddish
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    • [Vienna, copied and decorated by Meshullam Zimmel of Polna]
    • This manuscript is a masterpiece of Jewish book art by Aaron Wolf Herlingen, an artist born around 1700
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève, Comites Latentes 69
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève
    Date
    18th century, 19th century, 1756 and 18th-19th century
    Language
    Hebrew, Yiddish
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    • [Vienna, copied and decorated by Meshullam Zimmel of Polna]
    • between 1714 and 1756), who produced about thirty dated manuscripts that have survived until today, of
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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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    • Italy, copied by Leon ben Joshua de Rossi of Cesena
    • This manuscript contains the seven chapters of the aphorisms of Hippocrates in the Hebrew translation
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Canonici Or. 12
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1553
    Language
    Yiddish, Hebrew
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    • Yiddish translation of the Five Scrolls (ff. 116v-181v).
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Canonici Or. 47
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1526–1575
    Language
    Yiddish
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    • Maḥzor in Yiddish for the Days of Awe, Yotserot, Ashkenazi rite
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    Manchester. The John Rylands Library, Gaster Hebrew MS 118
    Collection
    Manchester Digital Collections
    Library
    The John Rylands Library
    Language
    yid, heb, ger
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    • Numbering of paragraphs is given in Hebrew.
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    Manchester. The John Rylands Library, Gaster Hebrew MS 139
    Collection
    Manchester Digital Collections
    Library
    The John Rylands Library
    Language
    yid, ger
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    • Acquisition: Acquired by The John Rylands Library from the heirs of Moses