Language:
Catalan
Year of publication:
2022
Titel der Quelle:
Tamid
Angaben zur Quelle:
17 (2022) 105-146
Keywords:
Haggadah.
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Jewish illumination of books and manuscripts
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Manuscripts, Hebrew
Abstract:
The main aim of this study is to extract new conclusions from the rela-tionship that B. Narkiss established between the golden Haggadah and the Sister Haggadah, two important manuscripts from the second quarter of the 14th century which were illuminated in Catalonia. The stylistic distance between the two Hag-gadot is great, but they are unequivocally related through certain iconographic solu-tions and compositions. The golden manuscript features exceptional illuminated el-ements of an aulic nature, which are linked to a workshop from the second linear gothic stage, in the times of King James II, while the Sister Haggadah can be con-sidered to date from the reign of Alfonso the Kind. Despite the plastic limitations of the illuminators of the Sister Haggadah, their work does not hide expressions and formulae connecting it with a new Italianizing culture that would progressively in-vade the Catalan context. Thus, a comparison of the styles and thematic aspects of the Hebrew documents in question reveals two heterogeneous creative contexts and suggests the existence of a lost Haggadah of an Italianizing style, which, having
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