Numbers from BL Add 15282, f. 179v
Summary
Full-page panel inhabited by hybrids and dragons, and four knights holding banners with the symbols of the four tribes camped around the Tabernacle (Judah, Reuben, Ephraim, Dan), and with the initial-word panel ~Wa-yedabber~ (and [the Lord] spoke) in its centre, at the beginning of Numbers. Image taken from f. 179v of Pentateuch (the 'Duke of Sussex's German Pentateuch') with Targum Onkelos (ff. 1-290), small pieces on the feasts (ff. 291-293v), Five Scrolls (ff. 294-313v) and ~Haftarot~ with ~masorah magna~ and ~parva~ (ff. 314-358). Written in Hebrew, Aramaic.
Tags
numbers
germany
medieval manuscript
illustrated books
five scrolls
hebrew manuscripts
medieval miniatures
illuminated initials
duke
aristocracy
british library
Date
1300 - 1500
Source
British Library
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Copyright info
Public Domain