Narkiss, Bazalel (intr.)

Illuminations from Hebrew Bibles of Leningrad (based on the original 1905 publications by Baron David Guenzburg and Vladimir Stassoff)

      C.J.A. 1990 - This virtually unknown treasure of the Firkovitch Collection of 12,000 early medieval manuscripts from the Near East is located today in the Public Library of St. Petersburg. The facsimile of the twenty-five illuminated manuscripts which were published by Guenzburg and Stassoff are the subject of Narkiss’ study, accompanied by an album of 27 plates from the original facsimile. Ranging from the First Leningrad Pentateuch of 924, through the Leningrad Bible of 1010 and 12th-century North African Bibles, to the 14th-century Spanish Bible, the book traces their different styles and decoration.