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The Rothschild Miscellany. Facsimile of the Manuscript.
London: Facsimile Editions, 1989.
Limited edition, copy number 60 of 500 printed; accompanied by the explanatory companion volume; the facsimile volume a very thick quarto bound in full leather over thick boards with four clasps and custom box; companion volume bound to match; the two housed in the original shipping box with only minor signs of wear and handling; with the original prospectus material included, and correspondence from the publishers from 1987 and 1988; the box containing both volumes; 8 x 8 1/2 x 9 3/4 in.
"The Rothschild Miscellany is a unique collection of 37 distinct texts: biblical and liturgical books; Rabbinic exegesis (midrash); texts on Jewish law, ethics, and philosophy; astronomy and historical legend; and even entertaining literature. With illumination on almost every leaf, this 946-page manuscript contains more than 200 detailed vignettes illustrating the text, dozens of gold and painted initial-word panels, and a variety of animal and floral ornamental depictions. Produced in a master workshop in Renaissance Italy, it represents the creative pinnacle of Hebrew manuscript painting." The original, produced in northern Italy circa 1480 in a square and semi-cursive Ashkenazic hand was given to the Israel Museum in Jerusalem by James de Rothschild in 1957. The manuscript was originally commissioned by Moses ben Yekuthiel Hakohen in 1479.
