Transmission
The Joshua Roll
There is a sheet of parchment in the Vatican Library that is about thirty centimetres tall and rather more than a metre wide, and it is covered along its entire height with…
Archive
illuminated manuscripts
Masoretes
Biblical Micrography
In the vast codicological landscape of medieval civilization, Jewish scribal culture generated an artistic phenomenon without exact parallel in world art: biblical micrography (Hebrew: ketivah ze’irah or masorah figurata). Micrography is the…
Books
A Manuscript in Two Museums
On a winter afternoon in 2023, in Gallery 503 of the Metropolitan Museum of Art on Fifth Avenue, the second volume of a 15th-century Hebrew manuscript rests open on a low wooden…