Hailing from the renowned collection of Jaqui E. Safra, the illuminated Bible was produced in Castile during the first half of the 14th century and stands as a remarkable testament to the cross-cultural influences in the Golden Age of medieval Spain.
This distinguished illuminated Hebrew Bible is an exceptionally important exemplar of medieval book arts and literary culture. The tradition of Hebrew Bible production which flourished in Castile beginning in the 1230s, began to decline due to the deteriorating political and economic situation of Spanish Jewry, persecutions connected with the Black Plague of 1348-1349, and the anti-Jewish riots of 1391. Thus, only three illuminated Hebrew Bibles from 14th-century Castile have survived, making the present manuscript incredibly unique. The high quality of its parchment, the generous quantity of its carpet pages, and the lavishness of their design, as well as the formal repertoire of the micrographic decoration, make this volume an exceptional witness to the glorious tradition of medieval Hebrew manuscript illumination.
The tradition of illuminated Hebrew Bibles first began to flourish during the reign of Ferdinand III (1217–1252) and continued until the expulsions of the Jews from Spain in 1492 and from Portugal in 1496-1497. While the production of these Bibles can be ascribed to different artistic schools located in Castile, Navarre, Catalonia and Portugal, the present manuscript’s lavish decoration, both painted and micrographic (an embellishment whereby a specialized scribe fashions minute script into ornamental patterns) suggest that it was produced in Castile during the first half of the 14th-century.
When the first embellished Hebrew Bibles began to appear in Castile during the early 13th-century, their patterns of decoration were based almost exclusively on an Islamic artistic repertoire, as seen in the present volume with its geometrically planned micrographic carpet pages at the end of the codex and micrographic frames with interlaced designs placed around significant biblical texts. Some of these patterns share commonalities in format and composition with illuminations in Qur’ans, as well as tooled patterns in book bindings that were produced in Spain by Muslim, Jewish, and Christian craftsmen into the 16th-century. It was only gradually– during the 14th -century– that the adornment of Hebrew Bibles in Spain began to reflect some of the motifs common in Gothic art, which was dominant in Iberian Christian culture of the 13th, 14th, and 15th centuries. The Bible’s decoration notably reflects these artistic interactions among the three coexisting religions, Christianity, Islam, and Judaism, a phenomenon referred to as convivencia.
This distinguished illuminated Hebrew Bible is an exceptionally important exemplar of medieval book arts and literary culture. The tradition of Hebrew Bible production which flourished in Castile beginning in the 1230s, began to decline due to the deteriorating political and economic situation of Spanish Jewry, persecutions connected with the Black Plague of 1348-1349, and the anti-Jewish riots of 1391. Thus, only three illuminated Hebrew Bibles from 14th-century Castile have survived, making the present manuscript incredibly unique. The high quality of its parchment, the generous quantity of its carpet pages, and the lavishness of their design, as well as the formal repertoire of the micrographic decoration, make this volume an exceptional witness to the glorious tradition of medieval Hebrew manuscript illumination.
The tradition of illuminated Hebrew Bibles first began to flourish during the reign of Ferdinand III (1217–1252) and continued until the expulsions of the Jews from Spain in 1492 and from Portugal in 1496-1497. While the production of these Bibles can be ascribed to different artistic schools located in Castile, Navarre, Catalonia and Portugal, the present manuscript’s lavish decoration, both painted and micrographic (an embellishment whereby a specialized scribe fashions minute script into ornamental patterns) suggest that it was produced in Castile during the first half of the 14th-century.
When the first embellished Hebrew Bibles began to appear in Castile during the early 13th-century, their patterns of decoration were based almost exclusively on an Islamic artistic repertoire, as seen in the present volume with its geometrically planned micrographic carpet pages at the end of the codex and micrographic frames with interlaced designs placed around significant biblical texts. Some of these patterns share commonalities in format and composition with illuminations in Qur’ans, as well as tooled patterns in book bindings that were produced in Spain by Muslim, Jewish, and Christian craftsmen into the 16th-century. It was only gradually– during the 14th -century– that the adornment of Hebrew Bibles in Spain began to reflect some of the motifs common in Gothic art, which was dominant in Iberian Christian culture of the 13th, 14th, and 15th centuries. The Bible’s decoration notably reflects these artistic interactions among the three coexisting religions, Christianity, Islam, and Judaism, a phenomenon referred to as convivencia.
Police are appealing for help in locating some rare books which were stolen during a theft which occurred in Norwich around on Tuesday 5th December.
It happened around 4.30pm when a delivery driver stopped at an address in Aylesbury Close in the city.
The driver left the vehicle and a male, described as being white, aged between 25 and 35 years-old, then stole the white Ford Transit van, with the number plate of YE60 TTZ, and drove off.
The books are a set of Dr. Johnson’s Dictionary dating back from the 1830s with an unusual floral design on the covers. They were recently purchased at auction and were en-route to their new owner when they were stolen.
PC Jamie Willetts said "These books may be unique and not the sort of thing you see every day. The owner is keen to get them back so I would ask people, especially those working in specialist bookshops, to be vigilant in case they are offered for sale.”
Anyone with information should contact PC Jamie Willetts at Hurricane Way Police Station on 101.
It happened around 4.30pm when a delivery driver stopped at an address in Aylesbury Close in the city.
The driver left the vehicle and a male, described as being white, aged between 25 and 35 years-old, then stole the white Ford Transit van, with the number plate of YE60 TTZ, and drove off.
The books are a set of Dr. Johnson’s Dictionary dating back from the 1830s with an unusual floral design on the covers. They were recently purchased at auction and were en-route to their new owner when they were stolen.
PC Jamie Willetts said "These books may be unique and not the sort of thing you see every day. The owner is keen to get them back so I would ask people, especially those working in specialist bookshops, to be vigilant in case they are offered for sale.”
Anyone with information should contact PC Jamie Willetts at Hurricane Way Police Station on 101.
HALSTAD, Minn. — A Minnesota woman has pleaded guilty to fatally shooting her boyfriend in a videotaped stunt they planned to post on YouTube.
The Star Tribune reports that 20-year-old Monalisa Perez pleaded guilty last week to second-degree manslaughter in the June death of 22-year-old Pedro Ruiz III.
Court records say Perez told investigators that Ruiz wanted to make a video of her shooting a bullet into a book he was holding against his chest.
Perez says she fired from about a foot away. Ruiz died from a single gunshot wound to the chest.
The Star Tribune reports that 20-year-old Monalisa Perez pleaded guilty last week to second-degree manslaughter in the June death of 22-year-old Pedro Ruiz III.
Court records say Perez told investigators that Ruiz wanted to make a video of her shooting a bullet into a book he was holding against his chest.
Perez says she fired from about a foot away. Ruiz died from a single gunshot wound to the chest.
he criminal complaint said Ruiz had been inspired to do a stunt that would help make their online following grow. In a tweet sent by Perez on June 26, she said the "dangerous" plan was "HIS idea not MINE."
The couple set up a GoPro camera on the back of a car and put another camera on a nearby ladder, police said. Once they were filming, Perez picked up the Desert Eagle .50 caliber handgun and fired into the book.
Perez then called 911 to report that she had accidentally shot Ruiz, according to court documents. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
Ruiz had practiced shooting books and showed off one that a bullet did not penetrate in order to convince Perez, authorities said.
According to the YouTube videos the couple made together, they have a 3-year-old daughter and Perez is pregnant with their second.
Perez's plea agreement calls for her to serve six months in jail and 10 years' supervised probation. She'll be sentenced in February.
The couple set up a GoPro camera on the back of a car and put another camera on a nearby ladder, police said. Once they were filming, Perez picked up the Desert Eagle .50 caliber handgun and fired into the book.
Perez then called 911 to report that she had accidentally shot Ruiz, according to court documents. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
Ruiz had practiced shooting books and showed off one that a bullet did not penetrate in order to convince Perez, authorities said.
According to the YouTube videos the couple made together, they have a 3-year-old daughter and Perez is pregnant with their second.
Perez's plea agreement calls for her to serve six months in jail and 10 years' supervised probation. She'll be sentenced in February.
Repeated inquiries to determine the title of the fatal book- some accounts say it was a dictionary, others an encyclopedia- have been ignored by local authorities.
-James Patterson, one of the world’s wealthiest authors, has announced his third annual Christmas Bonuses for bookstore employees in America. Begun in 2015 with $250,000, this year Patterson awarded $350,000 to over three hundred American bookstore workers, including these from the catchment for the Florida Antiquarian Book Fair:
Josh Niesse Underground Books Carrollton, GA
Megan Bell Underground Books Carrollton, GA
-Dan Brown’s recent act of philanthropy, a donation of €300,000 to Amsterdam’s Ritman Library, also known as the Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica House of Living Books, will enable the Ritman to digitize thousands of “pre-1900 texts on alchemy, astrology, magic, and theosophy,” reports Thu-Huong Ha at Quartz, including the Corpus Hermeticum (1472), “the source work on Hermetic wisdom”; Giordano Bruno’s Spaccio de la bestia trionfante (1584); and “the first printed version of the tree of life (1516): A graphic representation of the sefirot, the 10 virtues of God according to the Kabbalah.”
Brown, the Ritman notes, “is a great admirer of the library and visited on several occasions while writing his novels The Lost Symbol and Inferno.” Now he's giving back. Some of the revenue generated by his bestselling novels, along with a €15,000 contribution from the Dutch Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds, will allow the library’s core collection, “some 3,500 ancient books,” to come online soon in an archive called “Hermetically Open.”
-Electric Lit has a thoughtful- and thought-provoking- roundup of the literary year in 2017. It’s worth a read.
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