Sephardic book art of the 15th century /
Afonso, Luís Urbano,1972-editor.
Moita, Tiago Alexandre Asseiceria,editor.
The current volume presents ten different studies dealing with the final stages of Hebrew book art production in medieval Iberia. Ranging from the Farhi Codex, copied and illuminated in the late 14th century, to the Philadelphia Bible, copied and illuminated in Lisbon in 1496, this volume discusses a wide scope of topics related with the production, consumption and circulation of medieval decorated Hebrew manuscripts. Among the issues discussed in this volume we highlight the role played by three distinct artistic languages (Mudéjar, Late Gothic and Renaissance) in the shapping of 15th century Sephardic illumination, the codicological specificity of some solutions in terms of layout and the relation between the layout of these manuscripts and Hebrew incunabula, the use of geometric decoration in scientific diagrams, or the afterlife of these manuscripts in Europe and Asia following the expulsion of the Jews from Iberia.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Calligraphy and decoration in the Farhi Codex (Sassoon coll. MS 368, Majorca, 1366-83) / Katrin Kogman-Appel -- From Castile to Lisbon: the Sephardic Biblical Codex and Mudejar visual culture, mid-thirteenth to late fifteenth centuries / Sarit Shalev-Eyni -- Typography, layout and decoration: the printed Hebrew book in the Iberian Peninsula and its origins in illuminated manuscripts / Shalom Sabar -- Some Sephardic Bibles from the fifteenth century in the Bodleian Library / Maria Teresa Ortega-Monasterio -- Shirat ha-Yam and page layout in late medieval Sephardic Bibles / Javier del Barco -- The Portuguese Hebrew translation of Gerard de Solo's Commentary to Book IX of Rhazes's Almansor and the manuscript at Reynolds-Finley Historical Library (Birmingham, Alabama) / Tiago Moita -- Manuscripts and evidences of Jewish astrology and medicine in fifteenth-century Portugal, an overview / Helena A. Caravalho, Luis C. Riberio -- Mudejar decorations within calendrical, geographical, and mathematical tables and diagrams in a fifteenth-century Sephardic manuscript of Isaac Israeli's Yesod Olam from the British Library (MS Add. 15977) / Ilana Wartenberg -- Wandering books: the migration of fifteenth-century Sephardic manuscripts and their "new life" outside Iberia / Andreina Contessa -- Jewish networks, books, and early protoglobalisation: investigating the route of BNF Hébreu 1314-1315 / Luis U. Afonso.
The current volume presents ten different studies dealing with the final stages of Hebrew book art production in medieval Iberia. Ranging from the Farhi Codex, copied and illuminated in the late 14th century, to the Philadelphia Bible, copied and illuminated in Lisbon in 1496, this volume discusses a wide scope of topics related with the production, consumption and circulation of medieval decorated Hebrew manuscripts. Among the issues discussed in this volume we highlight the role played by three distinct artistic languages (Mudéjar, Late Gothic and Renaissance) in the shapping of 15th century Sephardic illumination, the codicological specificity of some solutions in terms of layout and the relation between the layout of these manuscripts and Hebrew incunabula, the use of geometric decoration in scientific diagrams, or the afterlife of these manuscripts in Europe and Asia following the expulsion of the Jews from Iberia.
Bible.
Jewish illumination of books and manuscripts
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval