Img. ID: 332731
Hebrew Illuminated Manuscripts  

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Text panels nos. 13 and 14 (sheet 7) surrounded by hand-painted decoration.

Upper margin:

28. The scene at the Chinese shop - a merchant is involved in weighing goods for a customer; the third person puts something on a shelf or to a drawer. 

29. The Purim feast.

30. Purim games and pranks that possibly reflect local (Italian?) customs:

- two people are playing cards;

- other men are involved in a game in which a donkey is led by a man, another man sits on animal's back with his back to front and seems to be throwing something to the third man who is supposed to catch it into the hoop on the stick

- other two men are carrying yet another man on two long poles; the man is wearing glasses.

- a woman.

Lower margin:

25. Purim games and pranks that possibly reflecs local (Italian?) customs:

- a person in a long pointed cap is carried in a wheelbarrow;

- two men simulate a fight with wooden swords;

- man is playing with a dog;

- two couples are dancing.

Additioanlly, two musicians and a woman are depicted.

Scene after the last text panel is similar to 28 from the upper margin: The scene at the Chinese shop - a merchant is involved in weighing goods for a customer; the third person puts something on a shelf or to a drawer.