• Ms. 906




    Categories

    Miscellaneous
    Calendar
    Manuscript

    Treatises on the Calendar


    Manuscript ID:
    Ms. 906

    Place:
    Germany

    Date:
    1748-

    Description:
    ink and pigment on paper, (17.1 x 15 cm.); Ashkenazi cursive Hebrew script

    Copyist:
    (a) Zechariah Shimon ben Jacob

    Former Owner:
    Shimon ben Abraham Isaac of Beverungen (grandson of the artist)

    Subject:
    Calendar; Miscellaneous


    This manuscript contains three sections: (a) Sefer Evronot, a work dealing with calculating the leap year along with reckoning holidays, seasons, and their interpretation. This copy, illustrated by Zechariah Shimon ben Jacob, is heavily decorated and illuminated, with both color pigments and pen-and-ink. The detailed folk-art drawings arte marred only by damage to many of the leaves;

    (b) rules on writing marriage contracts (ketubot);

    (c) a section, written later, containing recipes, and concluding with an acrostic poem.

     


    Manuscript Link:
    https://huc.on.worldcat.org/oclc/959582562


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