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

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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	Prayer book for all the year with illustrations of biblical scenes, and figures Sulzbach, Germany 1798