Torah Mantle
Artist
Unknown Italian
CultureItalian (Mantua)
Titles
- Torah Mantle
Datelate 17th century
MediumLinen and silk
Dimensions23 × 11 1/2 × 10 1/2 in. (58.4 × 29.2 × 26.7 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Velva G. Levine
Object number2023.40
Non exposé
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Department
Decorative Arts, Craft, and DesignPublished References Andreina Contessa, The Jewish Court of Venice: The Heritage of Jewish Venice 500 Years after the Establishment of the First Ghetto (Jerusalem: U. Nahon Museum of Italian Jewish Art, 2016), 35-36. Treasures of Jewish Heritage: The Jewish Museum, London (London: Scala Publishers, 2006), 43. Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Handwritten note on parchment sewninside the mantle, translated by Shaul Seidler-Feller of Sotheby's::
With God's help
The Lord God is truth, [and this inscription is] a note of truth regarding the Torah of truth with which God has graced His servants, namely the dear brothers—the esteemed physician, the honorable Benjamin Isaac Fano and his brother, may God keep them. It was brought to the Italian Synagogue, may God protect it, on the eve of the holy Sabbath on which Parashat Ha'azinu is read, in the manner of brides going to their weddings, with joy, song, and burning torches, with the thoroughgoing stipulation that they can remove it (ie - the Torah scroll) therefrom—they, their descendants, their descendants' descendants, their agents, and their heirs after them—at any time they wish. May it be [His] will that they merit to perform the commandments and live long, good lives. Amen.
With God's help
The Lord God is truth, [and this inscription is] a note of truth regarding the Torah of truth with which God has graced His servants, namely the dear brothers—the esteemed physician, the honorable Benjamin Isaac Fano and his brother, may God keep them. It was brought to the Italian Synagogue, may God protect it, on the eve of the holy Sabbath on which Parashat Ha'azinu is read, in the manner of brides going to their weddings, with joy, song, and burning torches, with the thoroughgoing stipulation that they can remove it (ie - the Torah scroll) therefrom—they, their descendants, their descendants' descendants, their agents, and their heirs after them—at any time they wish. May it be [His] will that they merit to perform the commandments and live long, good lives. Amen.
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