Illuminated Bible from 1398-1404 (c. 232v, began in Pisa in 5158 [1398] and finished in Perugia Tuesday 11th of Tishri 5165 [25 September 1404]) \u00b7 membr., Membranous guards \u00b7 cc. 233 + 1 \u00b7 220 \u00d7 156 mm (c. 1). Writing and hands: Daniel the scribe, the son of the physician, Shemuel the son of Daniel, the dayyan; Italian square on two columns. Condition: very good.[\/aesop_content]\n[aesop_content color=”#205782″ background=”#fff3db” width=”80%” columns=”2″ position=”none” imgrepeat=”no-repeat” floaterposition=”center” floaterdirection=”up” revealfx=”off”]Decoration: 1398-1404; Initials: ornate; Pages: 30 illustrated (cc. 1r-30r), the cards are illuminated with friezes flower and botanical decorations, with old-fashioned ornaments along the inner margins, on top and outside where one finds sections of the written text. The miniatures form different frames depending on the text on the page.<\/p>\n
Among the ornaments one find imaginary animals and other mythological characters. C. 1r: golden crown<\/strong> on top, children at play; C. 1v: a monkey and a goat<\/strong> (?); C. 2r: a mythological bird and a greyhound with wind instrument; C. 2v: a human figure with drum in the middle and on either side of a mythological rooster and a greyhound<\/strong>; C. 3r: a figure half man, half animal that plays the bagpipes, with at the sides two mythological birds<\/strong>; C. 3v: Two birds at the top and two at the bottom; C. 4r: a half man- half animal figure and a bird that spits fire at the top, bottom two birds; C. 4v: a hunter with a bow<\/strong> and an animal on the run; c. 5r: the struggle of archers at the top and two mythological birds below; C. 5v: a dog and a mythical bird; C. 6r: mythological animals with wind instruments; C. 6v: a half man and half animal figure with a drum and human figure with wind instrument; C. 7r: knights fights<\/strong>; C. 7v: above a rabbit (or hare?) And a crab, down two riders struggling with a snake; C. 8r: decoration with flowers; C. 9r: a rooster at the top where the decoration seems incomplete and bottom two birds; C. 10r: : At the top, a man’s face, from which spring floral decorations, below a bird fights with a man who defends himself with a shield; C. 10s: a unicorn and a bird on top, a snake and an animal figure with a human head<\/strong> below; C. 11r: a woman spinner, a half man, half squirrel figure with wind instrument and flags; C. 11v: birds at the top and bottom, at the bottom a half man, half animal figure with dagger and pointed hat<\/strong>; C. 12r: figures of birds at the top, at the bottom a cat<\/strong>; C. 12v: birds; C. 13r: above a rooster and a greyhound, below a man from the waist up that throws a stone at a dragon with open jaws; C. 13v: human figure with basket at the top center, with two of the sides, at the bottom a black bull<\/strong> (?); C. 14r: a monkey and a greyhound at the top, a bird in the middle, below , two headless animals, at the bottom of the page, a man’s head; C. 14v: a devil with to his right a dragon with open jaws<\/strong> and on the left, a bird, a fish under the dragon, at the bottom of the page: a cricket<\/strong>; C. 15r: top two wrestlers and bottom of the page a figure half bird and half animal with hairy legs; C. 15v: a fish with human head<\/strong> in the upper right and a bird on the left, two birds at the bottom; C. 16r: human figures with hats and wings (angels?) Playing the violin at the top and at the bottom a bird; C. 16v: two figures half man and half animal holding a shield with written text and above, a drawing of a human figure, below, a bird and a dragon; C. 17r: top, two warriors<\/strong>, below a wolf and an ox eating together; C. 17v: on the upper right corner a lion and on the left, an eagle, at the center a bird and below another a bird and an animal figure with the open jaws; C. 18r At the top, two knights fighting, and below a spotted bird C. 18v: top, figure of a man with hat in the middle and the two birds at his sides; C. 19r: two birds at the top and at the bottom, a goat<\/strong>; C. 19v: an oil salesman who pushes his donkey with a barrel<\/strong> with a tap; C. 20r: top a wolf growling at a rabbit , below, a knight fighting against a dragon; C. 20v: above a rooster holding the helm (?) of a sailboat<\/strong>, below an archer aiming at a bird; C. 21r: a unicorn who struggles with a knight armed with sword and shield; C. 21v: two birds at the top; C. 22r: a bird in the upper right corner fights against a dragon with open jaws to the left, below to the right, a bird with a human head and on the left and a bird; C. 22v (before Genesis): illuminated coat of arms<\/strong>: a rampant lion in front of a shield under which it reads: (…) Daniel<\/strong> (…) son of Shemuel the doctor<\/strong> (…); C. 23r: early Genesis, floral and animal frieze with putti at the bottom; CC. 23v-30r: floral, botanicals and animals; gold and blue; Tuscan or Umbrian Hebrew school. Binding: 1400; cardboard axes; covered in parchment; laces and \/ or ribs. History: In the colophon (c. 232v) it reads: \u05d5\u05d7\u05ea\u05d7\u05d9\u05dc \u05dc\u05db\u05ea\u05d5\u05d1 \u05d1\u05e2\u05d9\u05e8 \u05e4\u05d9\u05e1\u05d4 \u05d4\u05de\u05d4\u05d5\u05dc\u05dc\u05d4 \u05e9\u05e0\u05ea \u05e7\u05e0\u05d7 \u05dc\u05e4\u05e8\u05d8\u05d9 \u05d5\u05e0\u05e9\u05dc\u05dd \u05dc\u05e0\u05e7\u05d3 \u05d5\u05d4\u05de\u05e1\u05d5\u05e8\u05ea \u05d4\u05e0\u05d4 \u05d1\u05e4\u05d9\u05e8\u05d5\u05e9\u05d0 \u05d4\u05d9\u05d5\u05dd \u05d9\u05d5\u05dd \u05d2 \u05d9\u05d0 \u05d4\u05d7\u05d5\u05d3\u05e9 \u05ea\u05e9\u05e8\u05d9 \u05e9\u05e0\u05ea \u05e7\u05e1\u05d4 … \u05d3\u05e0\u05d9\u05d0\u05dc \u05d9\u05d6\u05d9”\u05d9 \u05d1\u05db\u05de”\u05e8 \u05e9\u05de\u05d5\u05d0\u05dc \u05d4\u05e8\u05d5\u05e4\u05d0 \u05d6\u05e6”\u05dc \u05d1\u05db\u05de ” \u05e8 \u05d3\u05e0\u05d9\u05d0\u05dc.<\/p>\n[\/aesop_content]\n Daniel ben Shemu’el. Copyist active in Bertinoro around 1390, in Pisa at least until 1398, then in Perugia.<\/p>\n[\/aesop_content]\n<\/div>\n[aesop_content color=”#205782″ background=”#fff3db” columns=”1″ position=”none” imgrepeat=”no-repeat” floaterposition=”left” floaterdirection=”up” revealfx=”off”]Printed Bibliography: V. Antonioli Martelli, L. Mortara Ottolenghi, Hebrew biblical manuscripts decorated from public and private Italian libraries catalog of the ordered exhibition at the Library Trivulziana<\/em>, Castello Sforzesco, Milan, 2\/28 March 1966, No. 55-56 . 10, pl. b \/ n 9. T.<\/p>\n Metzger, D. Metzger, La vie juive au Moyen Age: illustr\u00e9e par les manuscrits h\u00e9bra\u00efques enlumin\u00e9s du XIIIe au XVIe si\u00e8cle<\/em>, Fribourg 1982, 314, n. 247, ill. 38, 236, 282, 303, 328.<\/p>\n Sources: A. Toaff, Jews in Perugia<\/em>, Perugia in 1975.<\/p>\n Reproductions: Institute of Microfilmed Hebrew Manuscripts, Jerusalem: F 33551; photographic reproduction by the Veneto Region in 2012.<\/p>\n[\/aesop_content]\n\n[aesop_gallery id=”70″ revealfx=”off”]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. 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