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| − | Pigs appear in the manuscript twice as wild boars pursued by a hunter and his dogs. On f.61r On f.139v, the hunting scene is to illustrate the characteristic activity of the month May. | + | Pigs appear in the manuscript twice as wild boars pursued by a hunter and his dogs. On f.61r (see page 62 in the [http://jnul.huji.ac.il/dl/mss/heb2380/djvu/index.djvu?djvuopts&thumbnails=yes&zoom=page digitalized version]) On f.139v, the hunting scene is to illustrate the characteristic activity of the month May. |
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The Sefer Evronot ( Jerusalem, National Library, ms. Heb 2380)
This manuscript is a compilation of different texts about the Jewish calendar(the calculation of the leap years, the setting of the holidays, etc). It was produced in Halberstadt, Germany in the eighteenth century.It was written in Ashkenazi cursive script, and decorated with watercolor and gouache drawings. The scribe and the painter was the one and the same person,Pinkas ben Abraham Halevi (SeGaL).
Pigs in the Manuscript
Pigs appear in the manuscript twice as wild boars pursued by a hunter and his dogs. On f.61r (see page 62 in the digitalized version) On f.139v, the hunting scene is to illustrate the characteristic activity of the month May.
