#mahzor

[aprettyjewishyear]

Austrian Mahzor (Festival Prayer Book). made of pierced, repousse, traced, engraved, and cast silver; and ink printed on paper. dated 1765-1855 and printed by Anton Schmid. now belongs to the Jewish Museum.

[gliklofhameln]

Mahzor for the High Holy Days, 1415, Europe. The illuminated manuscript was confiscated from the Rothschild family during the Holocaust. It is filled with illustrations of birds, unicorns, and double-headed dragons framed by silver- and gold-leaf decorations.

During World War II, the Nazis looted an estimated five million books from Jewish libraries, museums, archives and private collections across Europe. Some were destroyed while other books deemed special were sent to the Nazi party’s Institute for Research on the Jewish Question in Frankfurt, an antisemitic library established by Alfred Rosenberg, the chief ideologue of the Nazi party.

[mental-mona]

The Nazis Stole This Rare Jewish Prayer Book Decorated With Dragons, Unicorns and Intricate Floral Patterns. It Just Sold for $6.4 Million a

A scribe created the volume, now known as the Rothschild Vienna Mahzor, in Vienna 600 years ago. It was recently returned to the heirs of it

[yiddishknights]

Opening page of Kol Nidre, 14th century.

New York Public Library, David bar Pesah Mahzor (MS Heb. 224)

[estera-shirin]

Mahzor — Worms, Germany ca. 1310

Mahzor from Worms, Germany; the name of the scribe is unknown.

[thebeautifulbook]

MAHZOR. (Tuscany, c1490) A Jewish holiday prayerbook. Gold highlights, initial word panels throughout in burnished gold on red, green or blue grounds, some embellished with marginal sprays, text illustrations Edges gilt and gauffered

Mid 16th-century Italian gold-tooled dark brown goatskin over thin wooden boards with strapwork painted in red and yellow, both covers with central cartouche with coat of arms, elaborately decorated with a unicorn and rabbit, hatched leaf and flower tools, solid dots and foliate rolls.

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[girlactionfigure]

[efikeff]

Kol nidre, initial word: כל (“All”) opening the Eve of Yom Kippur prayers from David bar Pesah Mahzor (Germany). Volume 2, 1301 - 1400 (Approximate), ink and watercolor on Vellum, From The New York Public Library.