Decorated initial-word panel from BL Add 27137, f. 247v
Summary
Initial-word panel decorated with pen-flourishing spreading into the entire length of the folio framing the text column, at the beginning of ~Hilkhot nahalot~, the chapter on inheritance. Image taken from f. 247v of Fourth Book of ~Arba'ah Turim~: ~Hoshen ha-Mishpat~ ('The Breastplate of Judgment') on Civil Law and personal relations. Written in Hebrew.
Hebrew manuscripts in the British museum
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jacob ben asher
initial word
panel
initial word panel
manuscripts
medieval
hebrew manuscripts
decorated initials
illuminated initials
medieval manuscript
illustrated books
medieval miniatures
british library
Date
1360
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Source
British Library
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Public Domain