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Nuremberg Mahzor (1331). Photograph courtesy of Israel Museum. 

Israel Museum to Display Nuremberg Mahzor
By STAN PARCHIN
August 20, 2009
 
The Israel Museum's focus exhibition The Nuremberg Mahzor: A Medieval Masterwork Unveiled (September 15, 2009-February 10, 2010) displays publicly for the first time an important Hebrew illuminated manuscript from the European Middle Ages.
 
The manuscript (1331 A.D.) recently underwent extensive conservation. Its presentation in Jerusalem includes four missing leaves that were removed in the early 19th Century. The Mahzor, with its prayers for the Jewish calendar, was executed in exquisite penmanship. Twenty-two folios (pages) were embellished in gold and silver leaf.
 


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