Pigs in the Sefer Evronot
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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. The first hunting scene with a pig on folio 61r (see page 62 in the digitalized version)is decorated a text on the prophetic readings, haftarot. On f.139v (see page 141 in the digitalized version, the hunting scene is to illustrate the characteristic activity of the month May.
