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- Context (4)
- Devotional texts (8)
- Elizabethan England (1)
- Ethnicity and identity (2)
- Gender sexuality courtship and marriage (2)
- Histories (1)
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- Illuminations and the art of writing (9)
- Islam (4)
- Jewish communities (4)
- Jewish Liturgy (7)
- Judaism (14)
- Language word play and text (1)
- Living Texts (4)
- New technologies and digital research (7)
- Poetry (2)
- Power and politics (5)
- Sacred texts (10)
- Science and medicine (1)
- The Hebrew Bible (7)
- Transforming topography (5)
- Women texts and faith (2)
Creator
- Abu Bakr [master illuminator], also known as Sandal (1)
- Anne Boleyn (1)
- Baruch (scribe) (1)
- Binyamin (scribe) (1)
- Eliyahu Menaḥem ha Zaḳen (author) (1)
- Hayyim [scribe artist] (1)
- Isaac ben Joseph of Corbeil (author) (1)
- Jean Maillart (or Mallard) (1)
- John Siferwas [principal artist] (1)
- John Whas [scribe] (1)
- John Wycliffe (1)
- King Henry VIII (1)
- Leṿi ben Yitsḥaḳ ben Karo of Salamanca [scribe] (1)
- Master of the First Prayer Book of Maximillian I [artist] (1)
- Mesrop of Khizan [illuminator] (1)
- Moses ben Maimon, known as Maimonides [author] (1)
- Mosheh ben 'Ezra (author) (1)
- Muhammad ibn al Wahid [calligrapher] (1)
- Muhammad ibn Sulayman al Jazuli (1)
- Richard Taverner [translator] (1)
- Samuel Ibn Tibbon [translator] (1)
- Shemu'el ben Shemu'el ibn Musa (scribe) (1)
- The Talbot Master and his workshop (1)
- Thomas Elmham (4)
- Thomas More (1)
- Unknown (11)
- Yitsḥaḳ ben ῾Ovadyah ben Daṿid of Forli (Gaio di Servadio) [scribe] (1)
- Yo'el ben Shim'on Feibush (scribe) (1)
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