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Lovely hybrid in the margin
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BL Add MS 11639; 'The Northern French Miscellany'; 1277-1324 CE; f.411v @BL_HebrewMSS @BLAsia_Africa
You never know who might drop in for dinner....
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BL Add MS 11639; 'The Northern French Miscellany'; 1277-1324 CE; f.118r @BLMedieval @BLAsia_Africa
A fascinating initial-word panel marks the beginning of Torah portion Yitro (יִתְרוֹ).
#ParashahPictures #HebrewProject BL Add MS 15423; Pentateuch; 1441-1467 CE; Italy (Florence); f.47v
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@zealofzebra @AdneSadeh Initial-word panel depicting the giving of the Law on Mount Sinai, at the beginning of a liturgical poem for the first day of Shavuot
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BL Add 22413; 'Tripartite Mahzor'; c.1322 CE; Germany, S. (area of Lake Constance); f.3r @BL_HebrewMSS
Initial word-panel of Shemot ( שמות)
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BL Add MS 15282; The 'Duke of Sussex's German Pentateuch'; 1300 CE-1324 CE; Germany; f.75v
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Reading and music: civilised pursuits in an increasingly uncivilised world
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BL Add MS 11639; 'The Northern French Miscellany'; 1277-1324 CE; ff.116r, 117v @BL_HebrewMSS @BLAsia_Africa
'Sukot' (Feast of Tabernacles) is a harvest and thanksgiving festival that lasts 8 days in the Diaspora.
The image from the 14th C Forli Siddur shows the beginning of the festival service #HebrewProject
#LetsGetDigital #Sukot #ForliSidur
https://t.co/BDL8KNQj2f
The begining of Abraham bar Hiyya's moral treatise 'Higayon ha-nefesh ha-'atsuvah' (Meditation of the sad soul) in a manuscript from Albania. Note the Byzantine script in the manuscript #HebrewProject #AbrahambarHiyya
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https://t.co/DNlkyWm5pW
Are you building a 'sukah'? Take inspiration from this beautiful image of a 'sukah', 'etrog' and 'lulav' from a 14th C manuscript of The Decisions of Isaiah di Trani the Younger #HebrewProject #LetsGetDigital #Sukot #IsaiahdiTranitheYounger #Etrog #Lulav
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'Kol Nidre' (All vows) is the prayer chanted at the beginning of the eve of 'Yom Kipur' (Day of Atonement) service in the synagogue. #HebrewProject #LetsGetDigital #YomKipur #KolNidre
https://t.co/jbkctGV0f9
'Shabat Shuvah' (Shabat of Return) is the 1st Sabbath of the Jewish New Year. It's named after the 'haftarah' from Hosea 14:2-10 highlighting themes of repentance and reconciliation with God #HebrewProject #Hosea
#ShabatShuvah #LetsGetDigital
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The well known supplicatory prayer 'Avinu Malkenu' (Our Father our King) from a 15th century daily prayer book #HebrewProject #LetsGetDigital #AvinuMalkenu https://t.co/lS9RyHWmkJ
Man blowing a shofar on Rosh ha-Shanah.
#HebrewProject #ltsGetDigital #Shofar
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https://t.co/BDL8KNQj2f
The 'shofar' (ram's horn) is blasted at least 30 times during the Rosh ha-Shanah synagogue service. This image shows a man surrounded by a herd blowing the 'shofar' #HebrewProject #Shofar #RoshHashanah #LetsGetDigital
https://t.co/BDL8KNQj2f
Prayer recited on the first day of the Rosh ha-Shanah service from a 14th C festival prayer book according to the Franco-German rite. Note the fine calligraphic script #HebrewProject #LetsGetDigital #RoshHashanah
https://t.co/meqqlMag01
The beginning of the 'Rosh ha-Shanah' service in a 15th century manuscript according to the Italian custom
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https://t.co/0ZrNUpyf4b
'Selihot' - penitential prayers for the intermediate nights of Rosh ha-Shanah from a 17th century manuscript according to the North African Jewish rite. Note the attractive semi-cursive script #HebrewProject #LetsGetDigital #Selihot #RoshHashanah
https://t.co/kyJ6TUCrCu
We begin our Jewish New Year Tweets with the festival service from a 15th C 'mahzor' according to the Italian rite. Note the decorated word panels with red and blue
flourishes #HebrewProject #LetsGetDigital #RoshHashanah #Mahazor
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Carmina figurata text with embedded dragon in a 14th century Ashkenazi festival prayer book #HebrewProject
#LetsGetDigital #CarminaFigurata #Dragon
https://t.co/9FdBgfeMKT
Hebrew manuscripts were often censored for content considered blasphemous or offensive to the Christian faith. Here's an example from a 15th C 'Sefer ha-ikarim' codex where a whole page has been blackened out
#HebrewProject #Censorship
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https://t.co/B1WolckImB
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