CultureItalian
Titles
- Torah Binder
Date1774
MediumVoided silk velvet, linen, and silk threads
Dimensions9 7/8 × 81 3/4 in. (25.1 × 207.6 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Rabbi David Lyon with Congregation Beth Israel
Object number2023.21
Current Location
The Caroline Wiess Law Building
111 Herzstein Gallery
On view
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Department
Decorative Arts, Craft, and DesignInscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Recto: Binder is embroidered with three lines of hebrew in multicolored thread, center:
Line 1: A garment rolled without blemish for the book [probably paraphrase on Isaiah 9.5 'a garment rolled in blood']
Line 2: of the Lord’s Torah of KMR [my honorable teacher and master] Shabtai Hai H [the ??? ]
Line 3: BKR [son of the honorable Rabbi] Joseph Norzi S [may he live] teach me Thy laws
Verso: linen tag sewn to bottom center: 7
Line 1: A garment rolled without blemish for the book [probably paraphrase on Isaiah 9.5 'a garment rolled in blood']
Line 2: of the Lord’s Torah of KMR [my honorable teacher and master] Shabtai Hai H [the ??? ]
Line 3: BKR [son of the honorable Rabbi] Joseph Norzi S [may he live] teach me Thy laws
Verso: linen tag sewn to bottom center: 7
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Simchah, daughter of Abraham Motto
1754
Linen with cotton(?) thread; original linen backing
2023.23
Samuel Gassman
2023
Tiara: Iron, platinum, enamel on copper, 19th century neoclassical helmet shell cameos, pink conch shell cameo, 19th century malachite cameo, 19th century hard stone cameo, shell, ebony, rose quartz, citrine, opal, garnet, sea glass, aquamarine, amethyst, gold, natural pearls, tigers eye, 19th century cut steel, silk, cotton velvet, and silk floss
Box: Archival foam core, Magic Smooth resin, cotton gauze, silk, cotton velvet, silver, metallic bullion ribbon, paper, cotton damask c. 1900, silk damask c. 1850, 18th century linen, cotton thread, and silk floss
2024.284.A,.B
late 16th–early 17th century
Silk, cotton, and metal-wrapped thread: cut and voided velvet, brocaded
2015.80
late 19th-early 20th century
Gilt embroidery and application on maroon cotton velvet, gilt fringes
2023.18
