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Jewish Book Art Between Islam and Christianity : The Decoration of Hebrew Bibles in Medieval Spain / Katrin Kogman-Appel

Englisch

Leiden ; Boston : BRILL, 2004

1 Online-Ressource

Includes bibliographical references and index

Erscheint auch als: Druck-Ausgabe- Jewish Book Art Between Islam and Christianity : The Decoration of Hebrew Bibles in Medieval Spain. - Leiden : BRILL, 2004

978-90-474-0296-1 electronic book

978-90-04-13789-9 print

DOI: 10.1163/9789047402961

Preface. ix -- List of Illustrations. xiii -- List of Maps and Diagrams. xxv -- Introduction. 1 -- Chapter One Acculturation, Assimilation, and Convivencia: -- The Iberian Peninsula in the Middle Ages. 10 -- Islam and Christianity. 10 -- The Population of Al-Andalus. 15 -- Minorities in the Christian Lands. 16 -- The Mudéjar Communities. 17 -- The Jewish Communities. 19 -- Cultural Exchange. 20 -- Chapter Two The Artistic Environment of Illuminated Sephardic Bibles. 34 -- Manuscripts of the Qur"an. 34 -- Hebrew Manuscripts from the Middle East. 38 -- Christian Art in Spain. 50 -- The Art of the Mudéjares. 54 -- Chapter Three The Castilian Workshops of the Thirteenth Century. 57 -- The Earliest Illuminated Bible. 57 -- From the Marseilles Bible to the Damascus Keter. 61 -- The Parma Bible. 68 -- Joseph ben Judah ibn Merwas. 88 -- Echoes of Christian Art. 92 -- Chapter Four Joshua ibn Gaon and Joseph Hatsarfati. 98 -- Chapter Five The Catalan Workshops of the Fourteenth Century. 131 -- The Perpignan Bible and its Relatives. 131 -- Bibles from Barcelona and its Environs. 141 -- The Foa and Farhi Bibles and the Renewal of Islamic Motifs. 150 -- The King's Bible. 154 -- The Saragossa Bible. 155 -- A Closer Look at the Temple Depictions. 156 -- Decoration of the Masorah Magna. 168 -- Chapter Six Cultural Transition and the Art of the Hebrew Book. 171 -- Islamic Culture, Aniconism, and the Sephardic Bibles. 173 -- Christian Art, Pictorial Narrative, and the Sephardic Haggadot. 181 -- The Cultural Climate within Late Medieval Sephardic Jewry. 185 -- Joshua ibn Gaon and Joseph Hatsarfati. 199 -- Maimonides' Texts Decorated. 200 -- Chapter Seven Castilian Schools of the Fifteenth Century. 203 -- Micrographic Decoration in New Castile. 204 -- The First Kennicott Bible. 212 -- French and Italian Influences. 215 -- Conclusion. 220 -- Bibliography. 225 -- General Index. 235 -- Index of Manuscripts. 242.

*Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval -- Spain ; Jewish illumination of books and manuscripts -- Spain

Klassifikation der Library of Congress: ND2935

Dewey Dezimal-Klassifikation: 745.6/74924/0946;

Book Industry Communication: HBJD

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 entirely indebted to Islamic culture. The volume elaborates in particular on the cultural history of the decorative motifs and types of ornamentation in an era of cultural transition in Iberia and culture struggle within Spanish Jewry. The first two chapters describe the cultural, social and artistic background in which the Bibles were produced, whereas the other chapters describe the works of the different schools and discuss them within different cultural, historical and social contexts. The text is accompanied by 10 color plates and 141 black-and-white figures

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