Illuminated Page from Fourteenth-Century Spanish Manuscript of the Hebrew Translation of Maimonides’s Guide for the Perplexed

 

Guide for the Perplexed, Spain

Cod. Heb. 37 from the Royal Library in Copenhagen, a Hebrew translation of Maimonides Guide of the Perplexed written originally in Arabic and here in the Hebrew translation of Samuel ibn Tibbon (ca. 1160-1230) copied and illuminated in Barcelona, 1348. The seated figure is holding an astrolabe. 

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