Rendel Harris 1, fol. 1v

This manuscript is a Hebrew Bible with a colophon dated 5026 (1266), written in Spain, probably Tudela, Burgeos, or Soria. It has an unusual book order after the Prophets, only known in one other Bible, the Dublin Ibn Gaon Bible made in Tudela circa 1300. The parchment leaves, in quires of eight, are ruled in hard point and the text is written in three columns of Iberian Sephardic square script (except in Job and Psalms, which are written in two columns). The masorah are written in micrography and arranged in decorative borders. The Bible is otherwise relatively simply decorated, with two carpet pages at the beginning and one at the end; an illustration of a harp at the end of Psalms; and marginal decorations marking the parashot (weekly Torah portions).

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