Manuscript Summary:This manuscript contains the full text of the Pentateuch and haftarot (weekly readings from the Prophets). The manuscript has six illuminated initial word panels found at the beginning of each of the books of the Pentateuch and at the heading of the haftarot. The semi-cursive Sephardic Hebrewscript and other codicological features of this manuscript point toward a Sephardic origin from the second half of the fifteenth century. It is likely that the Braginsky Pentateuch was the work of an artist who was active in the Lisbon School, which is known for producing around 30 distinctive manuscripts characterized by their largely non-figurative decoration: filigree initial word panels, floral and abstract pen work in purple ink, and multicolored dots and flowers.(red)
Online Since: 10/13/2016
Zürich, Braginsky Collection, B26
Parchment · 271 ff. · 18 x 12.2 cm · [Portugal, copied by a scribe named Moses or Aaron (?)] · [last quarter of the fifteenth century]
Pentateuch and <i>Haftarot</i>
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Zürich, Braginsky Collection, B26, f. 6r – Pentateuch and <i>Haftarot</i> (https://www.e-codices.ch/en/list/one/bc/b-0026)
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