- Object Name:
- Torah Binder
- Artist/Maker:
- Mandolina Bassan
- Place Made:
- Italy or Ottoman Empire
- Date:
- 1735/36 (date of inscription)
- Medium:
- Silk: embroidered with silk and metallic thread; metallic lace border
- Dimensions:
- 6 1/4 × 130 1/2 in. (15.9 × 331.5 cm)
- Credit Line:
- The H. Ephraim and Mordecai Benguiat Family Collection
- Accession Number:
- S 17
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In addition to its fine embroidery, this Torah binder notably includes the name of the woman who created it. Its inscription reads: “And [the staff of Aaron] put forth buds, bloomed blossoms and bore ripe almonds [Numbers 17:23]. A work of embroidery done as a holy craft. Mandolina Bassan, she shall be blessed above the women of the tent [a play on Judges 5:24] in the year [5]496 (1735–36).”
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