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Ilanot at Human Scale

The high-resolution editions on this site make the details of ilanot newly legible. Yet a zoomable image can obscure the size of the object itself. These photographs place ilanot beside people, tables, chairs, and rooms. They show the space needed to unroll, examine, and display them, and restore a sense of physical scale that measurements alone rarely convey.

Hanna examining the Great Venetian Parchment in Florence
Hanna showing us the recto of the Great Venetian!
William unfurls a Coppio
Eliezer on a secret mission to find a rare Shandukh ilan
Yossi playing with ilanot on William Gross's dining room table
Max and the BSB Munich ilanot
Eliezer & Menachem examining an ilan at the Israel Museum
William Gross and Eliezer comparing Shandukh faces
Yossi with the Hammerschlag Ilan of Adam Kadmon at the BSB in Munich!
A young Yossi scrolling at the home of William Gross
Eliezer's first look at the rare Shandukh ilan!
The Kabbalistic Mentaculus
Yossi (holding the ilan *and* the camera), Menachem, and Eliezer at the Israel Museum with the mysterious ilan
A disguised Yossi inspecting Hepburn's Great Parchment at the Bodleian Library in Oxford
Oxford's Magnificent Parchment!
Yossi's desk at the Bodleian Library in Oxford
With a Buchbinder Etz Hayyim at Prague's Jewish Museum
A fold-out Temerles in the Prague Jewish Museum
A hand trying to flatten the Chabad Great Tree before photographing it for us!
Yossi's desk in Mantua
Yossi and the "Private Collection" Magnificent Parchment
Yossi at the Lehmann Masterclass on Ilanot at the University of Pennsylvania
Uri and the Magnificent Parchment, 1:1