Pentateuch and its Binding

1498

Copied at the end of the 15th century, this manuscript − known as the Taj or “Crown” by the Yemenite Jews − was used as a model to copy Torah scrolls and venerated in the same way. Certain pages offer examples of decorative micrography. While the two-column layout of the text is also found in contemporary Gothic manuscripts, the geometrical decoration of the binding recalls the Mamluk artistic tradition, whose influence was felt in Yemen in the Arabian Peninsula from the 13th to the 16th centuries.

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