Language:
שפה נוכחית
Sign in with Google
Sign in with Facebook
Registration to the System
Welcome! You can register by filling in your personal details or by logging into your Facebook or Google account
or
Registration to the System
Forgot password?
Welcome! You can register by filling in your personal details or by logging into your Facebook or Google account
or
Encounters of Beauty: Hebrew Manuscripts from the Braginsky Collection and the National Library of Israel
The exhibition is a rare encounter between two collections of the most beautiful, colorful and elegant manuscripts of the Jewish people, both highly important but different in nature and scope: the private collection of Rene Braginsky of Switzerland, and the publicly available collections of NLI, the National Library of the State of Israel and the Jewish people.
"Encounters of Beauty" creates a dialogue between the two collections that is a tribute to Hebrew script and the written word. The exhibition displays manuscripts, painted inscriptions, illustrated Esther Scrolls, illuminated Passover Haggadot, and other outstandingly beautiful masterpieces.
Among the rare items exhibited: a miniature illustrated Hebrew Bible from Spain from the year 1300, a magnificently illuminated 14th century "Mishneh Torah" manuscript, rare Passover haggadahs, and more
Curators: Emile Schrijver, Yigal Zalmona, Netta Assaf
The exhibition opens on Friday, April 2, 2024.
Entry is included in the price of a guided tour of "The Treasures".
Opening hours:
Sunday to Wednesday - 9 am to 6 pm
Thursday - 2 pm to 10 pm
Friday and holiday eve - 9 am to 1 pm
Megillat Esther, Venice, 15 February 1564
Artist: Stellina, daughter of Menahem Parchment, 4 membranes, 21 text columns, 355 × 1900 mm, mounted on a wooden roller, 340 mm
Braginsky Collection, BCS 102 CATALOGUE NO. 44
Megillat Esther, Venice, 15 February 1564
Artist: Stellina, daughter of Menahem Parchment, 4 membranes, 21 text columns, 355 × 1900 mm, mounted on a wooden roller, 340 mm
Braginsky Collection, BCS 102 CATALOGUE NO. 44
Book of Hours France
1470-1490
Parchment, 172 × 122 mm, 18th-century gold and blind-tooled red Morocco binding
National Library of Israel, Ms. Yah. Var. 7
Ketubbah Senigallia
Wednesday, 4 Sivan 5533 (26 May 1773)
Moses Foa, son of Elijah Foa & Pyrena, daughter of Isaac Hay Mozzato
Parchment, 713 × 503 mm Braginsky Collection, BCK 175 CATALOGUE NO. 76
Braginsky Leipnik Haggadah Altona, 1739
Copied and illustrated by Joseph ben David of Leipnik
Parchment, 44 leaves, 285 × 200 mm, elaborately gold-tooled Morocco binding Braginsky Collection,
BCB 317 CATALOGUE NO. 14
Perek Shirah, [Hamburg or Copenhagen]
Copied and decorated by Uri ben Isaac Fayvesh ha-Levi, c. 1750
Parchment, 15 leaves, 145 × 110 mm, later quarter-leather binding
National Library of Israel, Ms. Heb. 8° 4295
Evronot [rules for setting the Hebrew calendar]
Ashkenaz, 1716,
Copied by Pinchas ben Avraham Segal
Paper, 198 pages, 190x170 mm
Brown leather binding
The National Library of Israel
Spain, 1300
Parchment, 357 pages, 255 X 205 mm
Dark brown gold-tooled leather binding
The National Library of Israel
Jerusalem
Wednesday, 11 Nisan 5656 (25 March 1896)
Israel, son of Aaron Shabtushvili & Miriam, daughter of Jacob Hakhmishvili
Paper, 647 × 490 mm
National Library of Israel, Ms. Heb. 1° 901.607
15th century
Length: around 28 meters
Height: 0.453 cm
National Library of Israel