Victor Klagsbald.

Musée national du Moyen Âge—Thermes et hotel de Cluny.

Paris, France, 1981. 136 pp., illustrations: 6 col., more than 200 b&w, 27 × 21 cm. French.

271180187X

Grand Palais (5 June–17 August 1981)

Published in conjunction with the exhibition “Chefs d’ oeuvre de l’ art juif. La collection du Musée de Cluny” [Masterpieces of Jewish Art. The Collection of the Musée de Cluny]. Introductory essays by Alain Erlande-Brandenburg and Claude Lévi-Strauss. Comprehensive descriptions by Victor Klagsbald, with illustrations and extensive bibliography for each piece. 182 items.

For another catalog of the Collection, see #707 (1982). For the full listing of the Strauss Collection, in the first Judaica catalog ever produced see #2 (1878).

CEREMONIAL OBJECTS
HEBREW ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS
SYNAGOGUE TEXTILES
TORAH ORNAMENTS

Amulets
Besamim
Book bindings
Bridal/Wedding belts
Circumcision cups
Circumcision implements/objects
Coins
Hanukkah lamps
Havdalah sets/compendia
Hebrew illuminated manuscripts, Bohemia-Moravia & Germany, 17th–19th C
Hebrew illuminated manuscripts, Italy, 15th C
Hebrew illuminated manuscripts, Italy, 17th–19th C
Hebrew illuminated manuscripts, Netherlands
Keter Torah
Ketubbot
Kiddush cups
Mezuzah cases
Pesach plates
Pesach towel covers
Pidyon ha-Ben plates
Portraits
Printed books
Prints, Jewish customs & ceremonies
Purim plates
Reader’s desk
Reader’s desk covers
Rimmonim
Scrolls of Esther, cases
Scrolls of Esther, engraved borders
Scrolls of Esther, illuminated
Scrolls of Esther, miniature
Sculpture
Seals/Stamps, rings
Seals/Stamps, personal
Talit bags
Tass
Tombstones, medieval
Torah Ark curtains
Torah Arks
Torah Arks, miniature
Torah binders
Torah cases
Torah mantles
Tzedakah boxes/containers
Wall hangings depicting the High Holidays
Wedding poems, riddles & songs
Wedding rings
Yad

Highlights from the exhibition, with detailed explanatory texts, leaflet, 4 pp., 45 × 32 cm.