Black, gold, and green designs and calligraphy on brown paper, including gilded floral designs in borders, verses from Psalms, menorahs, hamsas and other symbols. Center menorah contains Psalm 67. The rectangles on each side of the menorah contain kabbali
Manuscript, ink and paint on paper. Shiviti plaque using the traditional appearance and texts of a shiviti tablet, including Psalm 16:8, "I have set [Heb. shiṿiti] God always before me," and Psalm 67, but mainly containing texts relating to the festival
Alternative Title:
[Shivviti plaque for Purim], Shiviti plaque : [Kurdistan], late 19th or early 20th cent., and שויתי : קורדיסטן, סוף המאה ה-19 או תחילת המאה ה-20.
Description:
Purchased from Bery Gross on the Alexander Lowenthal Judaica Book Fund, 2007.
Subject (Geographic):
Kurdistan--Religious life and customs
Subject (Name):
Habib ben ʻAziz and חביב בן עזיז
Subject (Topic):
Jewish art and symbolism, Manuscripts, Hebrew --Kurdistan, Prayer--Judaism, Purim, and Religious articles--Kurdistan
Decorative calligraphy and borders in black and brown ink on heavyweight paper. Includes verses and names, including Elijah the Prophet, Shimon bar Yohai, Meir Baal ha-Nes, R. Amram ben Divan ... and R. Yehudah Gebali (?). This shiviti may have been creat
Shiviti on paper, illuminated with colorful grape vines and floral motifs. On the outside border are semicircles with Hebrew acronyms, which may have kabbalistic significance. Includes Psalm 67 written in the design of the seven-branched candelabrum with
Alternative Title:
[Shivviti from North Africa(?)]
Description:
Orbis call number: Hebrew MSS suppl 130 (Oversize).
Des Barres, Joseph F. W. (Joseph Frederick Wallet), 1722-1824
Published / Created:
1775?-1781?]
Call Number:
1983 Folio 25
Image Count:
3
Resource Type:
Maps, Atlases & Globes
Abstract:
A made-up collection of charts, plans and views, partly hand colored, from the Atlantic Neptune comprising [v. 1]: the charts of the South East Coast of Nova Scotia, with the title page of The charts of the coast and harbors of New England, 1781 bound in front (31 items, dated between 1777 and 1781). [v. 2]: Charts of the coast and harbours in the Gulph and river of St. Lawrence, 1780, including the charts of the coast of New England (36 items, dated between 1775 and 1781). [v. 3]: Charts of several harbours and divers parts of the coast of North America from New York south westwards to the Gulph of Mexico, 1780, including some 16 charts belonging to the New England part of the work (35 items, dated between 1776 and 1781). General title page wanting.
Description:
Includes indexes.
Publisher:
The Admiralty,
Subject (Geographic):
North America--Maps and North America--Pictorial works
Humphrey, Hubert H. (Hubert Horatio), 1911-1978, Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994, Osborn, Robert Chesley, 1904-, and Wallace, George C. (George Corley), 1919-1998
