Sefer Ezer ha-Emunah
Manuscript ID:
MS 901
Place:
Frankfurt am Main (?), Germany
Date:
1627
Description:
ink, pigment, and water color on paper, 90 leaves (18.4 x 14.8 cm.); Ashkenazi square and cursive Hebrew script
Former Owner:
Naftali Feibusch (Fulda, 1665)
Subject:
Calendar
English Text:
This work deals with calculating the leap year along with reckoning holidays, seasons, and their interpretation. Almost all of the pages have some form of decoration, with naïve folk-art images and motifs, or charts, tables, and other graphic tools. The illustrations are executed in gouache and water color in which the zodiacal imagery is especially charming.
Hebrew / Paper / 20,3 x 12,1 cm. / 212 + 2 pp. / 21 lines to a page / Sephardic cursive writing with square headings / 2 title pp. / Title I written in engraved frame signed: “I. Swertner fecit, 1767” / Title II written in drawn ornamental frame in red and black ink / Text written in frame ruled in red ink of 14,8 x 5,6 cm. / Each chapter begins with vignette drawn in red ink / Catchwords at the bottom of each page.
Manuscript Link:
https://huc.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1009042040