After the expulsion of Jews, the manuscript remained in Thessaloniki for centuries, followed by Alexandria before coming into the hands of Jacqui Safra.[5] The manuscript was placed on auction by Safra through Sotheby's Judaica Auction on December 20, 2017, with an estimate of $3.5-5 million but it was purchased by the MET pre-auction for an undisclosed amount.[6]
It is now part of the Cloisters collection, under accession number 2018.59.[7]
Manuscriptedit
The manuscript consist of 476 folios.[8] The first part of the manuscript is heavily gilded 70 folios are decorated with micrography, and the six of the micrographic pages are decorated with horseshoe and double-horseshoes frames. The manuscript is noted to be heavily influenced by Mudéjar and Gothic Design, which was prominent within the Iberian peninsula. The combination of Judaic, Islamic, and Christian art styles has come to be known as convivencia.[9]
It is one of only three surviving illuminated Hebrew Bibles from fourteenth-century Castile.[10]
Provenanceedit
The earliest known date on the codex is dated to 1366, with the owner's signature: David ha-Kohen Coutinh[o].
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