A curtain of burgundy red silk damask with a floral motif and a field of green taffeta in the middle. A lace of the reticella type, executed in Leonine thread, probably reused for the bordering of the upper and lower edges of the central field and for the crown motif in the upper part of the curtain. It is executed in plaits with picots and small motifs, fashioned with a cloth stitch for eyelets. The straight edge has a torchon ground and is bordered with a plait. According to the dedicatory inscription, the curtain was “donated by Yitzchak, son of Moshe Ephraim, and his wife Hannah, daughter of Yisrael, in the year 412 according to the minor era (= 1652).”
The map shows the location of all the sites where the genizah items in the collections of the Jewish Museum in Prague were discovered (finds from other sites, such as Ivančice and Pacov, are not in the museum’s collections). Representative genizah items from each location are gradually being added to the museum’s website. Complete sets of genizah items can be found in the museum’s catalogue at collections.jewishmuseum.cz.
