Illuminated Hebrew Bibles

📜 From Spain to Germany to Yemen, Jews of the mid- to late Middle Ages began producing decorated Bibles, some with smaller ornamentation and others with detailed, gold-leafed miniatures.

You’re reading Stories from Jewish History, a weekly newsletter exploring Jewish thinkers, events, and artifacts, from the famous to the obscure. Around the same time we start seeing those beautiful illuminated haggadot being produced, we see, to a lesser but still exciting extent, the production of illuminated Hebrew Bibles. Today, we turn to these mas…