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  • babylonian talmund

    Babylonian Talmud

    Manuscript Created date: 1290–1309

    This is an exceptionally rare item: a treasured medieval Jewish text, known as the Talmud, that somehow escaped the publ...

  • Barcelona Haggadah, Add MS 14761, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project, British Library

    Barcelona Haggadah

    Manuscript, Illuminated manuscript, Illumination Created date: 14th Century

    A highly illuminated medieval Spanish Hagadah. What is the Hagadah? The Hagadah (plural Hagadot), which literally mean...

  • Unrolled Torah scroll

    Pentateuch scroll with silk mantle

    Manuscript, Scroll, Textile Created date: scroll c. 1300–1399

    A 14th-century Torah Scroll from the Iberian Peninsula, complete with mantle. What is the Torah Scroll? The Torah Scroll...

  • Beginning of Genesis, with the Targum in the right column and Rashi’s commentary in the left column, and upper and lower margins, Pentateuch, Harley MS 5709, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project, British Library

    Pentateuch with Rashi's commentary and Targum Onke...

    Manuscript Created date: 1300-1340 CE

    The earliest surviving glossed Bibles from Ashkenaz (Franco-German lands) date from the 13th century CE. They show an or...

  • Duke of Sussex German pentateuch Add MS 15282

    The Duke of Sussex's German Pentateuch

    Manuscript, Illumination, Illuminated manuscript Created date: 1300–1324

    This page of the Duke of Sussex's German Pentateuch shows the kind of marginal decoration often painted in Hebrew mediev...

  • The Hispano-Moresque Hagadah: Haggadah for Passover according to the Spanish rite, Or 2737, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project, British Library

    The Hispano-Moresque Haggadah

    Manuscript, Illumination, Illuminated manuscript Created date: 1275–1324

    The haggadah is the service book used in Jewish households on Passover Eve to celebrate the Israelites' deliverance from...