Celestial bodies from BL Add 11639, f. 517

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Celestial bodies from BL Add 11639, f. 517

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Full-page miniature of the celestial bodies, with the sun, moon, and stars represented within a wheel. Caption: ‘These are a sun and a moon and stars within this wheel' .
Yael Zirlin identify the miniature with the fourth day of Creation, see Zirlin in ~The North French Hebrew Miscellany~, 2003, p. 95. Image taken from f. 517 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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1300 - 1500
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British Library
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