Artist
Unknown
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
Not 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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