The Coimbra Bible and the “Andalusian School” of Hebrew Manuscript Illumination
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https://doi.org/10.3989/aearte.2015.04Keywords:
Jewish Illumination, Sephardic Culture, Andalusian School, Abravanel Bible, Coimbra BibleAbstract
Several Hebrew manuscripts produced in Lower Andalusia between 1468 and 1482 share the same type of decoration characterised by marked aniconism, absence of colour, and the use of micrographic patterns of Islamic or Mudéjar influence, in a clear attempt to recuperate the decorative schemes of 13th-century Toledan Hebrew manuscripts. In this study one of these manuscripts, the Hebrew Bible known as the Abravanel Bible preserved at the University of Coimbra in Portugal, serves as a starting point for the discussion of the idiosyncrasies in the decorative programme of this ‘Andalusian School’, which symbolises the Sephardic resistance to the Christian world (that would eventually dictate the expulsion of the Jews from Seville and Cordoba in 1483), and to the growing Ashkenazi and cabalistic influences in the Iberian Peninsula.
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