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Decorated frontispiece from BL Add 27167, f. 256
Decorated initial-word panel from BL Or 2696, f. 104v
Lion from BL Add 15423, f. 15v - Public domain medieval manuscript
Full border from BL Add 27210, f. 12
King David playing the harp from BL Add 15282, f. 302
Arcade from BL Harley 7586A, f. 63
Inhabited initial-word panel from BL Or 2696, f. 257v
Betulia liberata. Hebrew Manuscript.
'It would have been enough' from BL Or 1404, f. 15v
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Cherubs from BL Add 11639, f. 522
Stork from BL Add 16577, f. 41v
Temptation from BL Add 11639, f. 520v
Bird from BL Add 11657, f. 110v
Tabernacle from BL Add 26878, f. 111v
Genesis from BL Add 11639, f. 5v
Rider from BL Add 21160, f. 181v
Stork from BL Add 16577, f. 41v
Deer from BL Add 26896, f. 209v
Bar Yokhnai from BL Add 11639, f. 517v
Summary
Full-page miniature of a giant bird, ~Bar Yokhnai~, one of the eschatological animals, which the rabbis identified with ~Ziz~. Caption: 'This is a bird which is called Bar Yokhnai'. On ~Bar Yokhnai~ see e.g. Babylonian Talmud, Tractate Berakhot 57b. Image taken from f. 517v of Miscellany of biblical and other texts ('The Northern French Miscellany' or earlier 'the British Museum Miscellany'): including the Pentateuch, ~Haftarot~, ~Tiqqun Sofrim~, Five Scrolls, prayer book for the entire year with Haggadah, legal texts, poetry, calendars, Book of Tobit in Hebrew, etc. Written in Hebrew.
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bar
yokhnai
bar yokhnai
medieval miniatures
prayer book
haggadah
medieval manuscript
illustrated books
five scrolls
hebrew manuscripts
passover seder
british library
Date
1300 - 1500
Source
British Library
Link
Copyright info
Public Domain