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1 online resource |
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Intro; Gronemann_e-book; Cover; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter I: Historical background; Chapter II: The cultural context; 1. Popular Literature in 15th Century Germany; 1.1 The development of popular illustrated texts; 1.1.1 Illustrated German Literature; 1.1.2 The Target Audience; 1.1.3 The Types of Books; 1.2 The Common Sources for German Literature and Meshal Haqadmoni; 2. Illustrations in German Popular Literature; 2.1 The illumination of literary cycles.; 2.2 Styles of Illustrations and Wood Carving in southern Germany |
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Chapter III: The Art Historical Context of the Illustrations1. Origins of styles; 1.1 MS Opp. 154, Bodleian Library, Oxford (Oxford1); 1.1.1 Pen drawings; 1.1.2 Woodcuts; 1.1.3 Stained Glass; 1.2 MS. Heb. 107, Bavarian State Library, Munich (Munich); 1.3 MS. Can. Or. 159, Bodleian Library, Oxford (Oxford2); 1.4 MS. X112 sup., Ambrosiana Library, Milano (Milano); 1.5 Meshal Haqadmoni in the Rothschild Miscellany, MS 180/5, Israel Museum (Rothschild).; 2. Pictorial borrowings -- Origins of Compositions and Motifs; 2.1 Pattern books, Bestiaries, Nature and Fable books |
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2.2 Depictions of animals (with reference to table 1B)2.3 Human Interaction (with reference to table 1B); 2.4 Astrology and Astronomy; 3. Iconographic and visual sources -- Deadly Sins and Temperaments; 3.1 Anger and the choleric temperament (Table 1b, row 3); 3.2 Sloth and the Phlegmatic temperament (Table 1b, row 36); 3.3 vanity and gluttony (Table 1b, row 49); 3.4 Lust and the Sanguine temperament (Table 1b, rows 24 -- 27); 3.5 Avarice (Table 1b, row 61); Chapter IV: The Pictorial ties between the copies of Meshal Haqadmoni; 1. Comparing the copies; 1.1 Summary of the text and the captions |
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1.2 Iconographic and pictorial Comparison (Tables 1A, 1B)2. Analysis and summary of affinity between the Cycles; 3. Hypothesis of a prototype; 4. Originality and creativity in the illustrations; Chapter V: Conclusions; 1. Art-historical connections; 2. Meshal Haqadmoni and the German Jews; 2.1 A Hebrew fable book in Germany; 2.2 The Readership; 2.3 The proliferation of Meshal Haqadmoni; APPENDICES; Catalogue; Oxford1 -- Oxford, Bodl. Opp. 154 (Germany, 1450); Munich -- Munich Miscellany, Munich, Bavarian State Library, Cod. Heb. 107 (Germany, before 1458) |
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Oxford2 -- Oxford, Bodl. MS. Can Or. 59 (Italy, 1470 -- 1480)Milano -Milano, Ambrosiana Library, MS. X 112 sup. (Italy, 1483); Rothschild-The Rothschild Miscellany, The Israel Museum, MS. 180/51 (Italy 1470 -- 1480); Bibliography |
| Summary |
Only five manuscript copies of the Hebrew book of fables Meshal Haqadmoni have survived and all five were scribed and illuminated within 15th century Ashkenazi communities. Yet the text, including the captions for 82 illustrations, was written 150 years earlier in Spain by Isaac ibn Sahula. It turns out that the styles of the illustrations in these five copies, while distinct from each other, are rooted in the then prevalent styles of German popular illuminated books. The manuscripts provoke several questions: Were the original copies of Meshal Hakadmoni, in Spain, illustrated? If not, how come that all the known 15th century Ashkenazi copies are illustrated? And more generally, what caused the renewed interest in the book of fables at such a geographic and time distance? What was the relation between the production of these copies, particularly the illustrations, to the surrounding German culture? The study by Simona Gronemann attempts to answer these and other questions. It is the first time that a hypothesis is being made as to a possible Ashkenazi prototype manuscript and as to further copies that might have existed in Germany and in northern Italy. All in all it provides an exciting journey through 15th century art of book illumination in central Europe, as affecting a Hebrew secular book |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 135-152) and index |
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Sahula, Isaac ben Solomon, active 13th century. Meshal ha-ḳadmoni.
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Fables, Hebrew.
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Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval -- Germany -- Ashkenaz
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Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval -- Spain -- Castile
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Jewish Studies.
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Fables, Hebrew
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Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
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Spain -- Castile
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
3447199318 |
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9783447199315 |
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3447112700 |
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9783447112703 |
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