• Ms. 1.3




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    Bible
    Manuscript

    Pentateuch with Haftarot and Megillot


    Manuscript ID:
    MS 1 3

    Place:
    Germany?

    Date:
    c. 14th century

    Description:
    ink on parchment, 154 leaves (24 x 18 cm.); text in two columns; Masorah above and below text, as well as intercolumnar; Ashkenazi square Hebrew characters

    Copyist:
    Benjamin

    Former Owner:
    Leon Yitshak

    Subject:
    Bible


    This Masoretic Pentateuch is extensively illuminated with red and green initial words to the parashiyot, and is decorated with flora and fauna as well as grotesques. The last page bears a lovely red and gold lion above the name of a former owner, Leon Yitshak (לאון יצחק).


    Manuscript Link:
    https://huc.on.worldcat.org/oclc/959339128


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