Bible Codex

Only a few pages from this tenth- or eleventh-century decorated Pentateuch survive. The parchment pages present the biblical text surrounded by Masoretic notes in micrography, bringing together two…

Only a few pages from this decorated Pentateuch survive. Decorated with gold, this page shows the Temple and its implements.

This page, from a decorated Pentateuch, shows Masoretic notes written in micrography, an artistic form unique to Jewish manuscripts in which words of a text are written so as to form a picture or…

Only a few pages from this decorated Pentateuch survive. This page shows the Masoretic notes in micrography, an artistic form unique to Jewish manuscripts in which words of a text are written so as to…

This Judeo-Arabic manuscript of Yefet ben Eli’s commentary on Ezekiel 43, which Yefet composed sometime in the mid-tenth century, was copied in the eleventh century. In keeping with the theme of the…