Treasures of Jewish Art: The 1673 Illuminated Scroll of Esther Offered to a Romanian Hierarch

by Cornelia Bodea and Bodea Cornelia

The Library of the Romanian Academy in Bucharest holds a rare piece of Jewish art from the seventeenth century, an illuminated scroll of the biblical Book of Esther, dated 1673. This manuscript is a unique example in terms of Jewish art because of two unique components. One of them is the date indicating a year in Cyrillic characters, viz. 7181 since the creation of the world according to Byzantine chronology, corresponding in the Gregorian calendar...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9739432387
• ISBN13: 9789739432382
• Release Date: June 2002
• Publisher: Center for Romanian Studies
• Length: 72 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 7.6"