An Introduction to Hebrew Manuscripts
Checklist of Images

The images in this seminar are from collections at The New York Public Library's Humanities and Social Sciences Library. All images are from the Dorot Jewish Division, except as noted below.

SESSION 1: The Hebrew Manuscript as Source for the Study of History and Literature, by Menahem Schmelzer

Align Left: Sefer Beriah by Nathan the Prophet of Gaza. Ottoman empire, c. 1700.

Align Right: Sefer Nitsahon by Yom Tov Lipmann Muelhausen. Central Europe, 17th century.

Align Left: Padua Ashkenazi Mahzor. Germany, 14th century.

Center: Samaritan Hebrew Bible. Nablus, 1232. Manuscripts and Archives Division.

Align Right: Tikun Midot ha-Nefesh by Solomon ibn Gabirol. Bologna, 1546-7.

Align Left: Sefer Emunot by Shem Tov ibn Shem Tov. Italy, 15th-16th century.

Align Right: Sefer ha-Tapuah attributed to Aristotle (copyist: Samuel Archivolti). Bologna, 1546-7.

SESSION 2: How Hebrew Manuscripts Are Made, by Malachi Beit-Arié

Align Left: Ladino translation of Festival Prayer Book. Palestine?, 18th century.

Center: Prayer book. Yemen, 17th century.

Align Right: Prayer book. Yemen, 17th century.

Align Left: Joseph Gikatilla. North Africa, 16th-17th century.

Align Right: El mitnase le-khol rosh (Yotser for Shabbat Shekalim). Padua Ashkenazi Mahzor. Germany, 14th century.

Align Left: Luah nimuse ha-mitkadshim veha-mitaharim (Confraternity protocols) copied by Samuel Archivolti. Bologna, Italy, 1546-7.

Align Right: Sefer ha-Razim compiled by Moses ben Jacob ben Mordecai. Greece, 1468.

Align Left: Haftarah for Second Day of Sukkot. Padua Ashkenazi Mahzor. Germany, 14th century.

Align Right: Asaperah el hok pelaot (Kerovah for Purim). Padua Ashkenazi Mahzor. Germany, 14th century.

Align Left: Lel shimurim or Yisrael (Maaravah for Second Day of Passover). Padua Ashkenazi Mahzor. Germany, 14th century.

Align Right: Ha-melekh ha-yoshev (Shaharit for Rosh ha-Shanah). Padua Ashkenazi Mahzor. Germany, 14th century.

Collected letters. Galilee, circa 1800.

Align Left: Mi-sod hakhamim (Petihah for Neilah). Padua Ashkenazi Mahzor. Germany, 14th century. Division.

Center: Haftarah for Shemini Atseret. Padua Ashkenazi Mahzor. Germany, 14th century.

Align Right: Af beri (Prayer for rain for Musaf of Shemini Atseret). Padua Ashkenazi Mahzor. Germany, 14th century.

Eshkol ivui (Shevata for Shabbat Shekalim). Padua Ashkenazi Mahzor. Germany, 14th century.

Elohim al domi lakh ke-kol (Kerovah for Shabbat Zakhor). Padua Ashkenazi Mahzor. Germany, 14th century.

SESSION 3: The Decoration of Medieval Hebrew Manuscripts, by Evelyn M. Cohen

Align Left: Book of Isaiah. Xanten Bible by Joseph ben Kalonymus. Xanten, 1294. Spencer Collection.

Center: Om asher bakh (Yotser for Shabbat Parah). Padua Ashkenazi Mahzor. Germany, 14th century.

Align Right: Book of Genesis. Xanten Bible. Xanten, 1294. Spencer Collection.

Align Left: Atah heartah (Yotser for Passover). Padua Ashkenazi Mahzor. Germany, 14th century.

Center: U-netaneh tokef (Siluk for Musaf for First Day of Rosh ha-Shanah). Padua Ashkenazi Mahzor. Germany, 14th century.

Align Right: Atiti le-hanenakh (Kerovah for shaharit of second day of Rosh ha-Shanah). Padua Ashkenazi Mahzor. Germany, 14th century.

Align Left: Passover Haggadah. Padua Italian Rite Mahzor. Italy, 15th century.

Align Right: Hamburg Haggadah copied by Jacob the Scribe, son of Rabbi Judah Leib Shamash. Hamburg, 1731.

Align Left: Montalto Megillah copied by Raphael Montalto. Amsterdam, 1686. Spencer Collection.

Center: Marriage contract of Beniamino Aviad Mortara and Gentile Pessele Sanguinetti. Reggio Emilia, 1770.

Align Right: Marriage contract of Abramo Fontanella and Gentile Carmi. Reggio Emilia, 1795.

SESSION 4: Forming the Great Collections, by Joseph Gutmann

Book of Jonah. Xanten Bible by Joseph ben Kalonymus. Xanten, 1294. Spencer Collection.

Align Left: Kol nidre. Padua Ashkenazi Mahzor. Germany, 14th century.

Center: Ha-poteah lanu shaare rahamim (Shaharit of Yom Kippur). Padua Ashkenazi Mahzor. Germany, 14th century.

Align Right: Shushan emek uyamah (Kerovah for shaharit of Yom Kippur). Padua Ashkenazi Mahzor. Germany, 14th century.

Align Left: Bookplate of Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex. Psalterium Hebraicum. Genoa, 1516.

Center: Autograph Letter signed by Hayyim Joseph David Azulai.

Align Right: David ben Abraham Oppenheimer. Abbildungen boehmischer und maehrischer Gelehrten und Kuenstler. Prague, 1773.

Align Left: Autograph collation compiled and signed by Samuel David Luzzatto. Padua Ashkenazi Mahzor. Padua, 1848.

Align Right: Autograph collation compiled and signed by Samuel David Luzzatto. Padua Ashkenazi Mahzor. Padua, 1848.

Portrait of Abraham Firkovitch. Avne Zikaron. Vilnius, 1872.

Align Left: Etching of Manasseh ben Israel(?) by Rembrandt van Rijn. Amsterdam, 1636. Wallach Division, Print Collection.

Align Right: Bookplate of David Solomon Sassoon. Sefer Razim. Greece, 1468.