Genesis from BL Add 15282, f. 1v

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Genesis from BL Add 15282, f. 1v

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Initial-word panel ~Bereshit~ (in the beginning) in gold letters, embedded into a full-page miniature of a Gothic arched structure inhabited by a spread eagle, a deer, a lion and four dragons at the corners, at the beginning of Genesis. Image taken from f. 1v 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.

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1300 - 1500
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