Manuscript Summary:The "Counting of the Omer" is the ritual counting of the 49 days between Passover and Shavuot, the Feast of Weeks. In this manuscript, these days and their corresponding numbers, are inscribed in 49 quatrefoils. F. 18r shows a menorah with the seven verses of Psalm 67 inscribed in microscript on the seven arms of the candelabrum. The scribe Baruch ben Shemaria from Brest-Litovsk (Belarus) created this manuscript in Amsterdam in 1795 for Aaron ben Abraham Prinz, of Alkmaar in the Netherlands, as noted on the title page. The drawing on f. 1r, a page of calligraphic decoration, depicts the giant Samson as Atlas, since, according to rabbinical tradition, he was endowed with superhuman strength.(red)
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Zürich, Braginsky Collection, B28
Parchment · 43 ff. · 10.6 x 7.6 cm · Amsterdam, Baruch ben Schemaria · 1795
<i>Sefirat ha-Omer</i> ("Counting of the Omer") and other prayers
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Zürich, Braginsky Collection, B28, f. V5r – <i>Sefirat ha-Omer</i> ("Counting of the Omer") and other prayers (https://www.e-codices.ch/en/list/one/bc/b-0028)
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