Breslau/Auras Memorbuch

Yeshiva University

Illumination of books and manuscripts, Jewish

Jewish art and symbolism

Drawing, Rococo

Judaism -- Liturgy -- Texts

Judaism -- Prayers and devotions

The Memorbuch from Auras (Silesia/Schlesien), Germany (now: Uraz, Slask, Poland), a community twelve miles northwest of Breslau (now: Wroclaw, Poland) is similar to others in its content, but it is noteworthy for its illuminations rendered in the Rococo style. These pen and ink illustrations, with occasional gilding, were apparently drawn by the scribe of the manuscript, Binyamin Ze’ev (Wolff Jacob) ben Elyakum Getsel Kats of Kempen, who completed the work in Breslau in July 1765.

Yeshiva University

Heather Rolen

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Books

Illuminated manuscripts

eng

Digital Scriptorium

Columbia University

Illumination of books and manuscripts

Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval

Illumination of books and manuscripts, Renaissance

Christian art and symbolism

The Digital Scriptorium is an image database of medieval and renaissance manuscripts that unites scattered resources from many institutions into an international tool for teaching and scholarly research. It bridges the gap between a diverse user community and the limited resources of libraries by means of sample imaging and extensive rather than intensive cataloguing.

Presently viewable on the DS website are records for 5,300 manuscripts and for 24,300 images.

Columbia University

Illuminated manuscripts

Miniatures (paintings)

eng

Images from Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts

Pierpont Morgan Library

Christian art and symbolism

Illumination of books and manuscripts

Thousands of digital images from The Pierpont Morgan Library’s renowned collection of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts are now available in CORSAIR, the library's online research resource. The collection spans some ten centuries of Western illumination, and contains manuscripts from all the major schools, including some of the great masterpieces of medieval manuscript art. The images and accompanying descriptions are the product of an extraordinary collaboration between the Library and the Index of Christian Art to photograph, digitize, and describe all significant illustrations within the Morgan’s medieval and Renaissance manuscripts. CORSAIR currently offers more than twenty thousand medieval images, and the number is constantly growing.

Pierpont Morgan Library

Princeton University. Dept. of Art and Archaeology. Index of Christian Art

Illuminated manuscripts

Miniatures (paintings)

eng

Special Treasures from the Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary

Jewish Theological Seminary of America

Jewish art and symbolism

Illumination of books and manuscripts, Jewish

Judaism -- Liturgy -- Texts

Rabbinical literature

Jewish Theological Seminary of America. Library. Manuscript. 9478

Jewish Theological Seminary of America. Library. Manuscript. 9344

Jewish Theological Seminary of America. Library. Manuscript. 8892

Jewish Theological Seminary of America. Library. Manuscript. 8255

Judaism -- Prayers and devotions

Page through four of the treasures from the library of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. Represented on this site are: Prato Haggadah (JTS MS 9478) created in Spain c. 1300; Esslingen Mahzor, Ashkenazic Rite (JTS MS 9344) created in Germany, 1290; The Rothschild Mahzor (JTS MS 8892) created in Florence, 1490; and Siddur, Italian Rite ("The Woman's Siddur") created in Italy, 1471.

Jewish Theological Seminary of America

Jewish Theological Seminary of America

2007-12-31

Illuminated manuscripts

Rare books

Siddurim

Mahzorim

Prayer books

eng

eng

The Prague Bible

Bible--Illustrations

Bible. O.T.

Pentateuch--Manuscripts, Hebrew

Bible--Commentaries

Jewish art and symbolism

Illumination of books and manuscripts, Jewish

Rashi, 1040-1105

Yeshiva University

Jonah, Mattathias ben, fl. 1489

The Prague Bible, an illuminated manuscript on vellum, was copied by the scribe Mattathias ben Jonah, of Laun, and completed in Prague on 28 Av 5249 [1489]. The manuscript is in three volumes, Torah, Neviim and Ketuvim (Pentateuch, Prophets and Hagiographa), and includes the biblical text accompanied by Rashi’s commentary. There are eighty four illuminated leaves, four of them with full page decoration. The commentary text is important for its variants from printed editions. The Bible was at one time in the hands of Moses Mendelssohn and it was later owned by Abraham Geiger. It was presented as a gift to Yeshiva University’s Mendel Gottesman Library by Ludwig and Erica Jesselson in 1985.

Yeshiva University

Yeshiva University

2005-12-31

Rashi, 1040-1105

Jonah, Mattathias ben, fl. 1489

Illuminated manuscripts

eng