Rishonim, Autographed and Illuminated

📜 For the conclusion of the Famous Hebrew Manuscript series, a look at important or beautiful manuscripts of Rashi, Rambam, and Tur.

You’re reading Stories from Jewish History, a weekly newsletter exploring Jewish thinkers, events, and artifacts, from the famous to the obscure. Today we’re spending time with a few rare manuscripts from the period of the Rishonim that characterize the type of information by which manuscript work enriches our knowledge of our core texts, as well as sev…