Subject (Topic): Tabernacle and Rimmonim (Torah ornaments) - Lowcountry Digital Library Catalog Search Search Results

Description:: Hand-colored lithograph depicting a Torah scroll and its ornaments, left, and the Tabernacle, right.

Date:: 1817
Description:: Hand-colored engraving depicting the standards of the Twelve Tribes of Israel, along with the Tabernacle, above right. Illustration of Numbers 2:2 : "The children of Israel shall pitch by their fathers' houses; every man with his own standard, according to the ensigns; a good way off shall they pitch round about the tent of meeting." Below, a Torah scroll and its ornaments. Engraving by Castelli. From Le Costume ancien et moderne, ou, Histoire du gouvernement, de la milice, de la religion, des arts, sciences et usages de tous les peuples anciens et modernes, Asia, Volume 3, by Giulio Ferrario, published Milan: De l'imprimerie de l'editeur, 1815-1829.

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