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Cloisters Hebrew Bible, the Glossary

The Cloisters Hebrew Bible is a Hebrew Bible codex made in the Kingdom of Castile from the early to mid-14th century, with an approximate date prior to 1366.^[1]

25 relations: Alba Bible, Alexandria, Alhambra Decree, Black Death, Codex, Convivencia, Damascus Crown, Ferdinand III of Castile, Golden Haggadah, Gothic art, Hebrew Bible, Iberian Peninsula, Jacqui Safra, Kennicott Bible, Kingdom of Castile, List of Hebrew Bible manuscripts, Massacre of 1391, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Micrography, Mudéjar, Portugal, Sotheby's, The Cloisters, Thessaloniki, Zaradel Synagogue.
1366 books
Hebrew Bible manuscripts
Jewish illuminated manuscripts
Judaism in Spain
Manuscripts of the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Alba Bible

The Alba Bible also known as the Arragel Bible, was created to foster understanding between Christians and Jews. Cloisters Hebrew Bible and Alba Bible are illuminated biblical manuscripts and Jewish illuminated manuscripts.

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Alexandria

Alexandria (الإسكندرية; Ἀλεξάνδρεια, Coptic: Ⲣⲁⲕⲟϯ - Rakoti or ⲁⲗⲉⲝⲁⲛⲇⲣⲓⲁ) is the second largest city in Egypt and the largest city on the Mediterranean coast.

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Alhambra Decree

The Alhambra Decree (also known as the Edict of Expulsion; Spanish: Decreto de la Alhambra, Edicto de Granada) was an edict issued on 31 March 1492, by the joint Catholic Monarchs of Spain (Isabella I of Castile and Ferdinand II of Aragon) ordering the expulsion of practising Jews from the Crowns of Castile and Aragon and its territories and possessions by 31 July of that year.

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Black Death

The Black Death was a bubonic plague pandemic occurring in Europe from 1346 to 1353.

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Codex

The codex (codices) was the historical ancestor of the modern book.

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Convivencia

Convivencia ("living together") is an academic term, proposed by the Spanish philologist Américo Castro, regarding the period of Spanish history from the Muslim Umayyad conquest of Hispania in the early eighth century until the expulsion of the Jews in 1492.

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Damascus Crown

Damascus Crown (כתר דמשק), Keter Damascus, is a complete Hebrew Bible manuscript containing 24 canonical books written in the 13th century CE, and brought by stealth to Israel from Damascus, Syria in 1993. Cloisters Hebrew Bible and Damascus Crown are Hebrew Bible manuscripts, Jewish illuminated manuscripts and Judaism in Spain.

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Ferdinand III of Castile

Ferdinand III (Fernando; 1199/120130 May 1252), called the Saint (el Santo), was King of Castile from 1217 and King of León from 1230 as well as King of Galicia from 1231.

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Golden Haggadah

The Golden Haggadah is an illuminated Hebrew manuscript originating around c. 1320–1330 in Catalonia. Cloisters Hebrew Bible and Golden Haggadah are 14th-century illuminated manuscripts and Jewish illuminated manuscripts.

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Gothic art

Gothic art was a style of medieval art that developed in Northern France out of Romanesque art in the 12th century AD, led by the concurrent development of Gothic architecture.

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Hebrew Bible

The Hebrew Bible or Tanakh (. Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary. Hebrew), also known in Hebrew as Miqra (Hebrew), is the canonical collection of Hebrew scriptures, comprising the Torah, the Nevi'im, and the Ketuvim.

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Iberian Peninsula

The Iberian Peninsula (IPA), also known as Iberia, is a peninsula in south-western Europe, defining the westernmost edge of Eurasia.

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Jacqui Safra

Jacqui (Jacob) Eli Safra (born 1947) is a Swiss billionaire investor from Geneva.

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Kennicott Bible

The Kennicott Bible (Biblia Kennicott or Biblia de Kennicott), also known as the First Kennicott Bible, is an illuminated manuscript copy of the Hebrew Bible, copied in the city of A Coruña in 1476 by the calligrapher and illuminated by Joseph ibn Hayyim. Cloisters Hebrew Bible and Kennicott Bible are Hebrew Bible manuscripts, illuminated biblical manuscripts, Jewish illuminated manuscripts and Judaism in Spain.

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Kingdom of Castile

The Kingdom of Castile (Reino de Castilla: Regnum Castellae) was a polity in the Iberian Peninsula during the Middle Ages.

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List of Hebrew Bible manuscripts

A Hebrew Bible manuscript is a handwritten copy of a portion of the text of the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh) made on papyrus, parchment, or paper, and written in the Hebrew language (some of the biblical text and notations may be in Aramaic). Cloisters Hebrew Bible and List of Hebrew Bible manuscripts are Hebrew Bible manuscripts.

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Massacre of 1391

The Massacre of 1391, also known as the pogroms of 1391, was a display of antisemitism and violence against Jews in Castile and Aragon.

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Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, colloquially referred to as the Met, is an encyclopedic art museum in New York City.

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Micrography

Micrography (from Greek, literally small-writing – "Μικρογραφία"), also called microcalligraphy, is a Jewish form of calligrams developed in the 9th century, with parallels in Christianity and Islam, utilizing minute Hebrew letters to form representational, geometric and abstract designs.

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Mudéjar

Mudéjar were Muslims who remained in Iberia in the late medieval period following the Christian reconquest.

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Portugal

Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic, is a country located on the Iberian Peninsula in Southwestern Europe, whose territory also includes the Macaronesian archipelagos of the Azores and Madeira.

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Sotheby's

Sotheby's is a British-founded multinational corporation with headquarters in New York City.

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The Cloisters

The Cloisters, also known as the Met Cloisters, is a museum in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Upper Manhattan, New York City.

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Thessaloniki

Thessaloniki (Θεσσαλονίκη), also known as Thessalonica, Saloniki, Salonika, or Salonica, is the second-largest city in Greece, with slightly over one million inhabitants in its metropolitan area, and the capital of the geographic region of Macedonia, the administrative region of Central Macedonia and the Decentralized Administration of Macedonia and Thrace.

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Zaradel Synagogue

Zaradel Synagogue is a synagogue in Alexandria, Egypt.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloisters_Hebrew_Bible