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Hebrew Manuscript Painting is the ninth in a new series of large-format, high-quality volumes featuring particularly interesting and appealing pages selected from the most important Eastern and Western manuscripts extant. On these charming pages are depicted illustrations of Jewish customs and holiday observances in manuscripts from Germany, France, Spain, and Italy. Joseph Gutmann of Wayne State University has selected and described the folios reproduced in this volume, representing a cross-section of Hebrew manuscript illumination.