The National Library of Israel, David and Fela Shapell Family Digitization Project, is pleased to announce that a digitized version of the Library's 18th century illustrated manuscript "Sefer Evronot" is now available for public access.
This work is a compilation on the Jewish calendar written, decorated and illustrated by Pinchas ben Avraham Halevi (SeGaL) in the 18th century. It is based on the work "Evronot" by R. Eliezer ben Yaakov Bellin and other sources. The work deals with the calculation of leap years, setting the times of the holidays, the hours of the beginning of each of the four seasons and their supernatural meaning, dates of Christian holidays, etc. On most of the pages there are lovely drawings in watercolor and gouache; some are illustrations to the text and some do not have any obvious connection to the text. Many drawings are scenes taken from Jewish tradition and from Christian culture, from the life of European nobility and peasants - such as the agricultural tasks of each month, modeled on peasant calendars. In the manuscript there are many symbolic drawings - angels in the shape of putti (male babies) and women, ornamented initial words, zoomorphic characters, floral decorations, animals and birds. The manuscript is presented in the DjVu format which provides high quality, magnifiable images compressed into relatively small files for easy downloading. In order to view DjVu images it is necessary to download and install (once) a special free viewer program. The Sefer Evronot can be accessed at: http://jnul.huji.ac.il/dl/mss/heb2380/index.html (Description in Hebrew) or http://jnul.huji.ac.il/dl/mss/heb2380/index_eng.html (Description in English) Elhanan Elhanan Adler Deputy Director for Information Technology National Library of Israel P.O.B. 39105, Jerusalem 91390, Israel Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel.: 972-2-6585005, FAX: 972-2-6511771, Home tel.: 972-2-6515977 Mobile tel.: 972-54-6829657 Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) =========================================================== Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 @ osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
