
Personal Objects
This section includes book bindings, boxes, jewelry, a medallion, seals, signet rings and amulets, a bowl, and a mortar. Some of them are gifts marking special occasions. Book bindings, such as the one inscribed with the initials of a bridal couple and their family emblems, were widely used in 18th-century Italy to encase daily, Sabbath and festival prayer books. More
42 item(s)
Silver book cover, probably a wedding gift
Venice, Italy 17th-18th century |
Bible book binding with five shaped chains on the spine, over red velvet
Germany or Italy 16th century |
Book container in silver bookbinding form, adorned with family emblem
Rome, Italy 1778 |
Prayer book and silver binding adorned with family emblems
Rome, Italy or Venice, Italy 1759-1802 |
High Holidays prayer book and silver binding
18th century |
Miniature prayer book with silver binding adorned with Levi family emblem
Padua, Italy 1729 |
Silver binding for Pentateuch
Germany 1770 |
Bible silver binding with lacework pattern
Augsburg, Germany 17th century |
Book binding for Pentateuch with depiction of the Binding of Isaac
Poland 18th century |
Jewelry box decorated with the the biblical quotation ''A woman of valor''
Nuremberg, Germany 1540 |
Jewelry box decorated with wedding scenes, after paintings by Mane Katz
New York, USA 1958 |
“Peace” ring
New York, USA 20th century |
Tie clasp
New York, USA 20th century |
Seal of Rabbi Solomon Hirschel, chief Rabbi of the Ashkenazi community in London
London, England ca. 1802 |
Medal commemorating Moses Mendelssohn
Prussia, Germany 1774 |
Seal with ivory handle in the form of a hand bearing a torch
Eastern Europe 1875 |
Seal with silver handle for suspension
Jerusalem, Land of Israel 19th-20th century |
Amuletic ring
Persia 18th century |
Signet ring
North Africa (?) 18th century |
Ring possibly signifying an engagement or marriage
Ottoman Empire 18th century |
Signet ring adorned with a family emblem
Germany 18th century |
Signet ring with depiction of the Western Wall in Jerusalem
Jerusalem, Land of Israel 18th century |
Amulet adorned with Hebrew blessing, and surmounted by dolphins
Italy 16th century |
Amulet case adorned with the utensils of the Tabernacle, and Priestly headdress
Italy 17th century |
Amulet case adorned with menorah, censer, Tablets of the Law, and incense altar
Italy 18th century |
Amulet case with amulet written for the healing of the circumcised Moses Ezekiah
Northern Italy 17th-18th century |
Shiviti amulet adorned with depiction of the menorah and quotation from Psalms
Persia 18th century |
Small amulet inscribed with the ''blessing of Joseph''
Iraq or Land of Israel 19th century |
Jewelry amulet decorated with amuletic inscriptions
Persia 18th century |
Amulet
Europe 16th century (?) |
Amulet adorned with the Priestly Benediction and menorah
Rome, Italy 1716-50 |
Amulet with suspension hook, adorned with a crowned letter
Italy or Germany 18th century |
Amulet case decorated with Isaac's blessing to Jacob
Serbia 18th-19th century |
Box decorated with amuletic script and damascene work
Damascus, Syria 19th century |
Amulet adorned with angels' names, fish and flowers
Persia 19th century |
Jewelry amulet, to be suspended at side of the temples
Djerba, Tunisia 18th century |
Amulet adorned with magic formula text
Persia 18th-19th century |
Jewelry amulet made of gold and adorned with Hebrew script
Persia 18th century |
Mortar decorated with seven-branched candelabrum and Hebrew letters
Verona, Italy 16th century |
Basin with handle decorated with nymph figurines and medallion cast after a Dürer engraving, ''The Sea Monster''
Verona, Italy Late 16th century |
Prayer book binding with depictions of wedding ceremony and the Binding of Isaac
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Prayer book for all the year with illustrations of biblical scenes, and figures
Sulzbach, Germany 1798 |