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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]
    • an artist born around 1700 in Gewitsch, Moravia, who worked in Pressburg (now Bratislava), Vienna, and
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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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    • expanded by Stefania Silvestri and Renate Smithuis.
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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]
    • It is decorated with black ink and masterfully imitates copper engraving.
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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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    • Inscribed (in Hebrew): ‘and she took the fruit and did eat and gave also her husband with her’ (Gen.
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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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    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 piyyutim and seliḥot for Yamim Noraim (ff. 182r-202r).
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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 and France (illumination)
    • accompanied by the commentary of Moses ben Isaac da Rieti (1388 - after 1460), Chief Rabbi of Rome and
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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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    • Layout: Layout throughout the codex is irregular and leading close to the
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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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    • Layout: Long line with between 8 and 48 written lines.
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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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    • The mystics of Safed in Upper Galilee turned Rosh Hodesh into a fast day and developed a liturgy based