Language:
Hebrew
Year of publication:
2020
Titel der Quelle:
מחשבת ישראל
Angaben zur Quelle:
ב (תשפא) 376-400
Keywords:
Jewish illumination of books and manuscripts
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Merkava
Abstract:
One of the large Erfurt Bibles, “Erfurt 2”, Berlin, StaatsbibliothekPreussischer Kulturbesitz Or. fol. 1212, produced in the late thirteenthcentury is extensively decorated with micrographic masoretic notes.Annette Weber discusses the meaning of the early word micrographydecorations in Ashkenazi Bibles, mostly in the Erfurt Bible 1 and Erfurt Bible 2,in relation to concepts found in the writings of Rabbi Judah the Pious andRabbi Eleazar of Worms. However, I suggest that beyond the importantinsights brought by Weber, there is also a connection to the esoteric ideas ofRabbi Neḥemiah ben Shlomo Troestlin, the Prophet from Erfurt, active in thefirst third of the thirteenth century. In this article, I focus on two scenes, thefirst from the opening of the Book of Ezekiel and the second from the Bookof Proverbs, and relate them to the writings of Ḥasidei Ashkenaz and RabbiNeḥemiah.
Note:
With an English summary.
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About The Library of the Evangelical Ministry in Erfurt Erfurt Germany Ms 2
URL:
אתר את הפרסום בקטלוג המאוחד של ספריות ישראל
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