The Gates of Exile by Isaac ben Joseph of Corbeil and The Gates of Düren by Isaac ben Meir of Düren
Item
- Title
- The Gates of Exile by Isaac ben Joseph of Corbeil and The Gates of Düren by Isaac ben Meir of Düren
- Identifier
- Hebrew MS 31
- Origin
- Place and date of production of the manuscript could be the same as the ones indicated in the divorce document on folio 42b. If so, the manuscript would have been produced in the city of טרטא possibly near the rivers Dijle (?) and Meuse (?) [על נהר דילא ... על נהר מזא], in 25 Shevat 5106 AM (= 27 January 1346 CE). The other placename mentioned, פטרא, is that of the place where the intended divorcee Judith presently lives. The decoration, which shows typical elements of mid-fourteenth-century gothic illuminations of Western Ashkenaz (Rhineland, Meuse area or Brabant) book-painting, confirms this dating. The flower motifs of the frontispiece on fol. 1r, for example, as well as the monkey, the profusion of marginal grotesques and hybrids invite us to relate this manuscript to the Codex Levy 19 of Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg, dated 1309 from Brussels.
- Rights Holder
- Zooming image © University of Manchester Library
- IIIF Manifest
- Link to IIIF manifest
- Item sets
- Hebrew Manuscripts
- Site pages
- Jewish legal works [Hebrew MS 31]