Art of the Blast: Shofar Blowing Customs in Medieval Manuscripts
In this episode, we’re diving into fascinating early 16th-century woodcut images and priceless medieval machzor manuscripts to see how they portray the mitzvah of blowing the shofar. We’ll explore the unique details in these images that reveal interesting minhagim of the time, though some might leave us with more questions than answers. Let’s uncover the stories these images tell about our tradition.
Links:
Book on Jewish Confession (Nuremberg 1508)
https://sammlungen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/freimann/content/thumbview/6515799
Der Juden Spiegel (Cologne 1508)
https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k1911061m/f39.double
Luzzato Machzor
https://www.sothebys.com/en/articles/the-luzzatto-high-holiday-mahzor-1
Machzor – Bavarian State Library
https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/en/view/bsb00034975?page=82
Kaufmann Machzor - Hungarian Academy of Sciences
http://kaufmann.mtak.hu/en/ms388/ms388-012v.htm
Machzor – Cambridge University Library
https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-ADD-00662/127
Machzor – Austrian National Library
Art of the Blast: Shofar Blowing Customs in Medieval Manuscripts
