The Five Scrolls in multilingual micrography Ruth, Song of Songs, Ecclesiastes, Esther, and Lamentations

Institution

The Israel Museum, Jerusalem

Object description:

This single sheet by the well-known scribe Aaron Wolf Herlingen is a masterpiece of tiny script (micrography) in four different languages: Ruth in German, Song of Songs in Latin, Ecclesiastes and Esther in Hebrew, and Lamentations in French. Herlingen, who copied and illustrated many manuscripts for wealthy court Jews, is among the most prolific figures of the Moravian and Austrian school of Hebrew manuscript production that flourished in the 18th century � long after the invention of the printing press.

Object/Work type:

photographs

Cultural Heritage type:

Visual Works (hierarchy name)

Location:

Jerusalem - Israel

Object measurements:

L: 19.1; W: 15 cm

Production

Scribe and illuminator: Aaron Wolf Herlingen of Gewitsch, Moravia (ca. 1700�1757)

Date: 1748

Material/Technique: Handwritten on parchment; black ink and gold leaf

Subject/theme:

Jewish Art, Manuscripts, Jewish Art and Life

Resource

Rights Type:  

Record

Source: The Israel Museum, Jerusalem

Identifier: 334183