Receiving the Law from BL Add 22413, f. 3
Summary
Detail of a page; historiated initial-word panel of the Receiving the Law with Moses streching his hands for the tablets and Aaron (shown as a Christian bishop) and the Israelites (divided according to sex) waiting at the foot of the mountain, at the beginning of a liturgical poem for the first day of Shavuot (Davidson vol. 1, no. 484). Image taken from f. 3 of Festival prayer book for Shavuot (Feast of Weeks) and Sukkot (Feast of the Tabernacles), German rite (aka the 'Tripartite Mahzor' ) including biblical readings: The Book of Ruth and the Book of Ecclesiastes with Joseph Kara's commentary. Written in Hebrew.
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Date
1300 - 1500
Source
British Library
Copyright info
Public Domain