Thursday, August 2, 2018

Jewish Simcha: Acquisition of Early, Rare Hebrew Bible Celebrated by the Getty

In last month’s announcement of its recently purchased “Rothschild Pentateuch,” the Getty Museum hyped this monumental volume (1,180 folios, of which some 150 are decorated), as “the most spectacular medieval Hebrew manuscript to become available in more than a century.”
The lavishly, fancifully decorated pages easily live up to their billing as “spectacular.”



Article source here:Arts Journal

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