Jewish Book Art Between Islam and Christianity by Katrin Kogman-Appel
Jewish Book Art Between Islam and Christianity: The Decoration of Hebrew Bibles in Medieval Spain (Medieval and Early Modern Iberian World) by Katrin Kogman-Appel
English | July 30, 2004 | ISBN: 9004137890 | 398 Pages | PDF | 25 MB
English | July 30, 2004 | ISBN: 9004137890 | 398 Pages | PDF | 25 MB
This book discusses the decoration types of Sephardic illuminated Bibles. Unlike illuminated Passover manuscripts from the same period with their rich figurative and narrative picture cycles, Bibles are almost exclusively aniconic. Whereas the former borrow heavily from Christian art, the Bibles are entirely indebted to Islamic culture.