Sephardic Book Art of the Fifteenth Century

Harvey Miller Studies in Medieval and Early Renaissance Art History (HMSAH) Sephardic Book Art of the Fifteenth Century edited by L. U. Afonso, T. Moita (eds.) 259 p., 3 b/w ill. + 111 colour ill., 220 x 280 mm, 2019 ISBN: 978-1-909400-59-7 Languages: English Hardback The publication is available. Retail price: EUR 160,00 print Share/Save/Bookmark The current volume presents ten different studies dealing with the final stages of Hebrew book art production in medieval Iberia. Ranging from the Farhi Codex, copied and illuminated in the late 14th century, to the Philadelphia Bible, copied and illuminated in Lisbon in 1496, this volume discusses a wide scope of topics related with the production, consumption and circulation of medieval decorated Hebrew manuscripts. Among the issues discussed in this volume we highlight the role played by three distinct artistic languages (Mudéjar, Late Gothic and Renaissance) in the shapping of 15th-century Sephardic illumination, the codicological specificity of some solutions in terms of layout and the relation between the layout of these manuscripts and Hebrew incunabula, the use of geometric decoration in scientific diagrams, or the afterlife of these manuscripts in Europe and Asia following the expulsion of the Jews from Iberia. Luís U. Afonso is Professor of Art History at the University of Lisbon. He is author of several studies on Portuguese Late Medieval and Renaissance art. Tiago Moita has recently concluded his Ph.D. at the University of Lisbon on 15th-century Portuguese Hebrew illuminations. Table of Contents Calligraphy and Decoration in the Farhi Codex (Sassoon coll. Ms 368, Mallorca, 1366-83) - Katrin Kogman-Appel From Castile to Lisbon: The Sephardic Biblical Codex and Mudejar Visual Culture, Mid-Thirteenth to Late Fifteenth Centuries - Sarit Shalev-Eyni Typography, Layout and Decoration: The Printed Hebrew Book in the Iberian Peninsula and its Origins in Illuminated Manuscripts - Shalom Sabar Some Sephardic Bibles from the Fifteenth Century in the Bodleian Library - Maria Ortega Monasterio Shirat ha-Yam and Page Layout in Late Medieval Sephardic Bibles - Javier del Barco The Portuguese Hebrew translation of Gerard de Solo's Commentary to Book IX of Rhazes's Almansor and the Manuscript at Reynolds-Finley Historical Library (Birmingham, Alabama) - Tiago Moita Mudéjar Decorations within Calendrical, Geographical, and Mathematical Tables and Diagrams in a Fifteenth-Century Sephardic Manuscript of Isaac Israeli's Y?sod ?Olam from the British Library (MS Add. 15977) - Ilana Wartenberg Manuscripts and Evidence of Jewish Astrology and Medicine in Fifteenth-Century Portugal: An Overview - Helena Avelar, Luís C. Ribeiro Wandering Books: The Migration of Fifteenth-Century Sephardic Manuscripts and their 'New Life' Outside Iberia - Andreina Contessa Jewish Networks, Books and Early Protoglobalisation: Investigating the Route of BNF Hébreu 1314-1315 - Luís U. Afonso Interest Classification: Fine Arts & Performing Arts Art History (general) Medieval art history