| Curator |
Suzanne Landau. |
| Co-curator |
Tanya Sirakovich. |
| Imprint |
Jerusalem, Israel, 2008. 58 pp., 61 pp.*, illustrations: 63 col., 24 × 16.8 cm. Hebrew and English. |
| ISBN |
9789652783660 |
| Location |
Israel Museum (19 December 2008–13 June 2009) |
| Description |
Extraordinary works of art from all cultures whose creation required long, labor-intensive processes. Includes four Judaica objects: a miniature Hebrew Bible in a silver binding (Poland, 19th C), an egg decorated with micrography (Poland, 19th C), a micrographic page of the Five Scrolls (Aaron Wolf Herlingen, Vienna, 1748), and a Seder Tikkunei Shabbat by Herlingen with a gold filigree binding (Vienna, 1738). Detailed descriptive entries. 55 items. |
| main keywords |
BOOK BINDINGSMICROGRAPHY |
| minor keywords |
Aaron Wolf Herlingen of Gewitsch (scribe-artist)Hebrew illuminated manuscripts, Bohemia-Moravia & Germany, 17th–19th CMicrography on eggshell |