Hebrew Bible

Spanish

On view at The Met Cloisters in Gallery 14


Este ejemplar de Biblia hebrea o Tanaj (que contiene todos los textos bíblicos) del siglo XIV está decorado con motivos clásicos del arte andalusí, como las formas entrelazadas —compuestas en este caso por minúsculas inscripciones o micrografía— y los arcos de herradura que enmarcan el texto. Ambos elementos siguieron floreciendo en el arte judío español incluso bajo la dominación cristiana de la etapa posterior de la Edad Media. El uso de decoraciones arquitectónicas se podría interpretar como una referencia a un espacio sagrado: el Templo de Jerusalén, hoy perdido.







This fourteenth-century Hebrew Bible, or Tanakh (containing the full biblical text), features classic Andalusi forms such as interlace patterns—here, composed of miniscule inscriptions, or micrography—and horseshoe-arch frames, both of which continued to flourish in Spanish Jewish art even under Christian rule in the later Middle Ages. The use of architectural decorations could have been intended to allude to a sacred space, namely the lost Temple of Jerusalem.

Hebrew Bible, Ink, tempera, and gold on parchment; leather binding, Spanish

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Opening - folios VIIv/VIIIr