North French Hebrew Miscellany
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The North French Hebrew miscellany (British Library Add. MS 11639) is a notable illuminated manuscript from 13th-century France, completed in ca. AD 1278.
It is illustrated with a total of 41 paintings, executed by four different painters, either by Jewish painters working in a Christian workshop, or by Christian painters working for a Jewish patron. [1]
References
- ^ Sed-Rajna (1982), cited after G. Sed-Rajna, 'Studies on Jewish Art in the last fifty years' in: Judit Targarona Borrás (ed.) Jewish Studies at the Turn of the Twentieth Century, vol. 2, European Association for Jewish Studies, 1999, , ISBN 9789004115583, p. 104.
- G. Sed-Rajna, The Paintings of the London Miscellany, Journal of Jewish Art 9 (1982).
- Jeremy Schonfield, The North French Hebrew miscellany: (British Library Add. MS 11639) : companion volume to an illuminated manuscript from thirteenth-century France in facsimile, Facsimile Editions Limited, 2003, ISBN 9780948223211.
See also
- Jews in the French Middle Ages
- Medieval Hebrew literature
Categories:
- 13th-century illuminated manuscripts
- Hebrew manuscripts
- Jewish illuminated manuscripts
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