• Detail of a marginal painting of a man holding a branch of ~lulav~ and an ~etrog~, at Sukkot., Prayer book (~Forli Siddur~) for the entire year, Italian rite

(fl. until 1596), censor: inscribed with his name, 1575 (f. 342); see William Popper, ~The Censorship of Hebrew Books~ (New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1969), p. 78, appendix § 105-110.Note of birth: inscribed [5]349 [1589] (f. 342v).Hippolite of Ferrara, Franciscan

• Detail of a marginal painting of a coat of arms of a shield party per fess, a demi-lion rampant., Prayer book (~Forli Siddur~) for the entire year, Italian rite

(fl. until 1596), censor: inscribed with his name, 1575 (f. 342); see William Popper, ~The Censorship of Hebrew Books~ (New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1969), p. 78, appendix § 105-110.Note of birth: inscribed [5]349 [1589] (f. 342v).Hippolite of Ferrara, Franciscan

• Detail of a partial foliate border with a bear., Prayer book (~Forli Siddur~) for the entire year, Italian rite

(fl. until 1596), censor: inscribed with his name, 1575 (f. 342); see William Popper, ~The Censorship of Hebrew Books~ (New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1969), p. 78, appendix § 105-110.Note of birth: inscribed [5]349 [1589] (f. 342v).Hippolite of Ferrara, Franciscan

• Detail of a partial foliate border with a nest full of young birds and a parent bird approaching., Prayer book (~Forli Siddur~) for the entire year, Italian rite

(fl. until 1596), censor: inscribed with his name, 1575 (f. 342); see William Popper, ~The Censorship of Hebrew Books~ (New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1969), p. 78, appendix § 105-110.Note of birth: inscribed [5]349 [1589] (f. 342v).Hippolite of Ferrara, Franciscan

• Detail of a partial foliate border inhabited by two magpies., Prayer book (~Forli Siddur~) for the entire year, Italian rite

(fl. until 1596), censor: inscribed with his name, 1575 (f. 342); see William Popper, ~The Censorship of Hebrew Books~ (New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1969), p. 78, appendix § 105-110.Note of birth: inscribed [5]349 [1589] (f. 342v).Hippolite of Ferrara, Franciscan

• Detail of a partial foliate border inhabited by a wolf with a lamb in his mouth., Prayer book (~Forli Siddur~) for the entire year, Italian rite

(fl. until 1596), censor: inscribed with his name, 1575 (f. 342); see William Popper, ~The Censorship of Hebrew Books~ (New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1969), p. 78, appendix § 105-110.Note of birth: inscribed [5]349 [1589] (f. 342v).Hippolite of Ferrara, Franciscan

• Detail of a partial foliate border inhabited by a dog with a rooster in his mouth and two birds in the upper margin., Prayer book (~Forli Siddur~) for the entire year, Italian rite

(fl. until 1596), censor: inscribed with his name, 1575 (f. 342); see William Popper, ~The Censorship of Hebrew Books~ (New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1969), p. 78, appendix § 105-110.Note of birth: inscribed [5]349 [1589] (f. 342v).Hippolite of Ferrara, Franciscan

• Detail of a partial foliate border inhabited by a parrot and a duck., Prayer book (~Forli Siddur~) for the entire year, Italian rite

(fl. until 1596), censor: inscribed with his name, 1575 (f. 342); see William Popper, ~The Censorship of Hebrew Books~ (New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1969), p. 78, appendix § 105-110.Note of birth: inscribed [5]349 [1589] (f. 342v).Hippolite of Ferrara, Franciscan

• Detail of an initial-word panel accompanied by a dragon and a hybrid, at the evening prayer for Yom Kippur., Prayer book (~Forli Siddur~) for the entire year, Italian rite

(fl. until 1596), censor: inscribed with his name, 1575 (f. 342); see William Popper, ~The Censorship of Hebrew Books~ (New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1969), p. 78, appendix § 105-110.Note of birth: inscribed [5]349 [1589] (f. 342v).Hippolite of Ferrara, Franciscan

• Detail of a partial foliate border inhabited by a duck or a goose (?)., Prayer book (~Forli Siddur~) for the entire year, Italian rite

(fl. until 1596), censor: inscribed with his name, 1575 (f. 342); see William Popper, ~The Censorship of Hebrew Books~ (New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1969), p. 78, appendix § 105-110.Note of birth: inscribed [5]349 [1589] (f. 342v).Hippolite of Ferrara, Franciscan

• Detail of a marginal painting of a man pointing to his eye, at a liturgical poem for 10 of Tevet (a Jewish fast day) starting with 'Be your eyes open' (for the poem, see Davidson vol. 3, no. 118)., Prayer book (~Forli Siddur~) for the entire year, Italian rite

(fl. until 1596), censor: inscribed with his name, 1575 (f. 342); see William Popper, ~The Censorship of Hebrew Books~ (New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1969), p. 78, appendix § 105-110.Note of birth: inscribed [5]349 [1589] (f. 342v).Hippolite of Ferrara, Franciscan

• Detail of a framed marginal painting of a family around the Seder table with the master of the house making the blessing over the second cup of wine., Prayer book (~Forli Siddur~) for the entire year, Italian rite

(fl. until 1596), censor: inscribed with his name, 1575 (f. 342); see William Popper, ~The Censorship of Hebrew Books~ (New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1969), p. 78, appendix § 105-110.Note of birth: inscribed [5]349 [1589] (f. 342v).Hippolite of Ferrara, Franciscan

• Initial-word panel decorated with geometrical and foliate motifs., Prayer book, Italian rite

of the 17th century), censor: inscribed with his name (f. 182v); see William Popper, ~The Censorship of Hebrew Books~ (New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1969), appendix § 62-74.Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), Italian bibliophile: his manuscript no. 135 (inscribed,

• Scribal formula surrounded by a foliate scroll held by a hand., Prayer book, Italian rite

of the 17th century), censor: inscribed with his name (f. 182v); see William Popper, ~The Censorship of Hebrew Books~ (New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1969), appendix § 62-74.Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), Italian bibliophile: his manuscript no. 135 (inscribed,

• Initial words decorated with fleur-de-lis, and geometric scrolls, at the beginning of ~Sefer tiqqun middot ha-nefesh~., Miscellany of ethical texts

1v, 161v).Camillo Jaghel, censor: inscribed with his name, 1619 (f. 159v); see William Popper, ~The Censorship of Hebrew Books~ (New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1969), appendix § 50-56.Moses Wilhelm Shapira (b. 1830, d. 1884), a antiquities dealer of Jerusalem: purchased

• Busts of a lion and a rooster linked together, perhaps part of an unfinished coat of arms., Miscellany of ethical texts

1v, 161v).Camillo Jaghel, censor: inscribed with his name, 1619 (f. 159v); see William Popper, ~The Censorship of Hebrew Books~ (New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1969), appendix § 50-56.Moses Wilhelm Shapira (b. 1830, d. 1884), a antiquities dealer of Jerusalem: purchased

• End of Deuteronomy framed by micrographical design (f. 191v), and ~masorah~ in micrographical form framing a scribal formula (f. 192)., Pentateuch with ~masorah magna~ and ~parva~

of the 17th century): inscribed with his name, 1612 (f. 196); see William Popper, ~The Censorship of Hebrew Books~ (New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1969), pp. 100-101, and appendix § 80-84.Italian inscription: ‘Pentateuco Ebraico ossia li cinque libri di Moise’

• Detail: initial words decorated with fleur-de-lis, and geometric scrolls, at the beginning of ~Sefer tiqqun middot ha-nefesh~., Miscellany of ethical texts

1v, 161v).Camillo Jaghel, censor: inscribed with his name, 1619 (f. 159v); see William Popper, ~The Censorship of Hebrew Books~ (New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1969), appendix § 50-56.Moses Wilhelm Shapira (b. 1830, d. 1884), a antiquities dealer of Jerusalem: purchased

• Detail of a page: busts of a lion and a rooster linked together, perhaps part of an unfinished coat of arms., Miscellany of ethical texts

1v, 161v).Camillo Jaghel, censor: inscribed with his name, 1619 (f. 159v); see William Popper, ~The Censorship of Hebrew Books~ (New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1969), appendix § 50-56.Moses Wilhelm Shapira (b. 1830, d. 1884), a antiquities dealer of Jerusalem: purchased

• Historiated initial 'Q' of Peter, with the descender of the letter composed of a foliate extension of acanthus leaves (centre)., Cutting from a Gradual (sanctorale)

Ms 978, no. D. 218-1906. See Laurence B. Kanter and others, ~Painting and Illumination in Early Renaissance Florence 1300-1450~ (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1994), pp. 155-76 [exhibition catalogue] and Gaudenz Freuler, 'Don Silvestro dei Gherarducci', in ~Dizionario Biografico