Treasures of Jewish Art (Hardcover)

The Library of the Romanian Academy in Bucharest holds a rare piece of Jewish art from the seventeenth century, an illuminated scroll of the Book of Esther, dated 1673. This manuscript is a unique example in terms of Jewish art because of two distinct components that it exclusively possesses. One of them is the date indicating the year 7181 in Byzantine chronology, which corresponds to the Gregorian calendar year 1673. The second component is the coat of arms of the Principality of Moldavia, placed within the escutcheon in the ornamental section at the beginning of the scroll. These essentially biographic elements indicate an age for this type of megillah, and although this is not the very year when it first took shape, they prevent specialists from oscillating between the 16th, 17th, and the mostly preferred 18th centuries. In addition, the presence of the Moldavian coat of arms in the escutcheon, along with other evidence, points to a Romanian holder, namely Dosoftei, the metropolita

General

Imprint:	Center for Romanian Studies
Country of origin:	Romania
Release date:	July 2002
First published:	June 2002
Authors:	Cornelia Bodea
Dimensions:	200 x 155mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	72
ISBN-13:	978-973-9432-38-2
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > Art styles not limited by date > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > Jewish studies
LSN:	973-9432-38-7
Barcode:	9789739432382

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