Jewish book art between Islam and Christianity : : the decoration of Hebrew bibles in medieval Spain / / Katrin Kogman-Appel ; translated by Judith Davidson.

This book discusses the decoration types of Sephardic illuminated Bibles. Unlike illuminated Passover manuscripts from the same period with their rich figurative and narrative picture cycles, Bibles are almost exclusively aniconic. Whereas the former borrow heavily from Christian art, the Bibles are...

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Superior document:The Medieval and early modern Iberian world, v. 19
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2004.
Year of Publication:2004
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Medieval and early modern Iberian world ; 19.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xxiii, 245 pages) :; illustrations (some color).
Notes:First published in Hebrew in 2001. With revisions and additions.
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