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- Date of production 1770
- Place of creation Germany
- Dimensions height: 58 cm, width: 199 cm
- ID no. MHK 834/VII
- Museum Historical Museum of the City of Kraków
- Subjects multiculture, religion
- Technique embroidery with a metal thread
- Material velvet, haberdashery
- Object copyright Historical Museum of the City of Kraków
- Digital images copyright public domain
- Digitalisation RDW MIC, Małopolska's Virtual Museums project
- Tags ornamental techniques , synagogue , judaica , fabric , Jews , 2D , sacred art , public domain , embroidery
The elongated rectangle of maroon velvet consisting of three rectangles sewn together: the largest embroidered one in the centre and two smaller ones attached on its sides, not embroidered. The decoration in a silver and gold-like hue fills in the surface of the central rectangle: a crown flanked by griffins-lions and vases with flowers. Above them, right at the upper edge, runs a one-line Hebrew inscription composed of four divided words:
כתר תורה
“Crown of the Torah”
The elongated rectangle of maroon velvet consisting of three rectangles sewn together: the largest embroidered one in the centre and two smaller ones attached on its sides, not embroidered. The decoration in a silver and gold-like hue fills in the surface of the central rectangle: a crown flanked by griffins-lions and vases with flowers. Above them, right at the upper edge, runs a one-line Hebrew inscription composed of four divided words:
כתר תורה
“Crown of the Torah”
קדש ליי
“Holiness to the Lord” (Exodus: 28,36)
Under the decoration is the four-lined donative inscription in Hebrew, embroidered with a metal thread:
נ(דבת) י(ד) חח כ(בוד) ה(רב) פסח בן הגאון מ(ורנו) / יוסף אלי ז(כר צ(דיק)ל(ברכה) א(ב) ב(ית) ד(ין) מבינגא /
נכד הגאון המפורסם מ יוסף שמואל ז(כר) צ(דיק) ל(ברכה) א(ב) ב(ית) ד(ין)
ור(אש) מ(תיבתא דק(הילה) ק(דושה) פפר וזוגתו אשת חיל / מ(רת) בילה בת כ(בוד) מאיר אולמא מפערש ז(כרונו) ל(ברכה) /
שנת תקל בנ(ברא) ה(עולם)
A gift from the reverent Rabbi Pesach, the son of the scholar, Józef Eliasz*of blessed memory, the head of the rabbinical court in Bingen, the grandson of the famous scholar, Józef Samuel **of blessed memory, the head of the rabbinical court and the superior of the rabbinical academy of the holy community in Frankfurt am Main; and his wife, “virtuous woman” (Prov. 31, 10), Bela, the daughter of the reverent Meir Ulmo of Pfersee of blessed memory. In the year 5(530) from the creation of the universe [= 1770].
* Józef Eliasz, the chief rabbi in Bingen, Germany, born in Kraków in about 1645, died in Bingen on 14.06.1701.
** Józef Samuel Israel Chaim (Hayum) Jesaias, from 1690 the chief rabbi and the superior of the rabbinical academy in Frankfurt am Main, born in Kraków in about 1610, died in Frankfurt am Main on 9.11.1703.
Elaborated by Eugeniusz Duda (Historical Museum of the City of Kraków), © all rights reserved
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