The Braginsky Collection of the Swiss collector René Braginsky is generally considered to be the largest private collection of Hebrew manuscripts in the world. The website of this project is divided into three sections: 1) manuscripts and a selection of printed books, 2) marriage contracts and 3) Esther scrolls, all of which were shown in the exhibitions of the Braginsky Collection in the Bibliotheca Rosenthaliana in Amsterdam, in Yeshiva University Museum in New York, in the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, in the Landesmuseum (Swiss National Museum) in Zurich and in the Jewish Museum in Berlin, between 2009 and 2014. The oldest manuscript in the collection is the 1288 legal code of rabbinic scholar Moses of Coucy. Over time, further selected acquisitions will be uploaded to the website.
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The Braginsky Collection of the Swiss collector René Braginsky is generally considered to be the largest private collection of Hebrew manuscripts in the world. The website of this project is divided into three sections: 1) manuscripts and a selection of printed books, 2) marriage contracts and 3) Esther scrolls, all of which were shown in the exhibitions of the Braginsky Collection in the Bibliotheca Rosenthaliana in Amsterdam, in Yeshiva University Museum in New York, in the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, in the Landesmuseum (Swiss National Museum) in Zurich and in the Jewish Museum in Berlin, between 2009 and 2014. The oldest manuscript in the collection is the 1288 legal code of rabbinic scholar Moses of Coucy. Over time, further selected acquisitions will be uploaded to the website.
(Description adapted from information on project website)