Abstract
Several Hebrew manuscripts produced in Lower Andalusia between 1468 and 1482 share the same type of decoration characterised by marked aniconism, absence of colour, and the use of micrographic patterns of Islamic or Mudejar influence, in a clear attempt to recuperate the decorative schemes of 13th-century Toledan Hebrew manuscripts. In this study one of these manuscripts, the Hebrew Bible known as the Abravanel Bible preserved at the University of Coimbra in Portugal, serves as a starting point for the discussion of the idiosyncrasies in the decorative programme of this ‘Andalusian School’, which symbolises the Sephardic resistance to the Christian world (that would eventually dictate the expulsion of the Jews from Seville and Cordoba in 1483), and to the growing Ashkenazi and cabalistic influences in the Iberian Peninsula.
Highlights
Several Hebrew manuscripts produced in Lower Andalusia between 1468 and 1482 share the same type of decoration characterised by marked aniconism, absence of colour, and the use of micrographic patterns of Islamic or Mudéjar influence, in a clear attempt to recuperate the decorative schemes of 13th-century Toledan Hebrew manuscripts
In this study one of these manuscripts, the Hebrew Bible known as the Abravanel Bible preserved at the University of Coimbra in Portugal, serves as a starting point for the discussion of the idiosyncrasies in the decorative programme of this ‘Andalusian School’, which symbolises the Sephardic resistance to the Christian world, and to the growing Ashkenazi and cabalistic influences in the Iberian Peninsula
Bibles of Sefarad, Biblioteca Nacional de España, Madrid, pp. 49-85
Summary
En la Baja Andalucía, entre 1468 y 1482, fueron producidos varios manuscritos hebraicos que presentan decoración semejante, marcada, esencialmente por un aniconismo acentuado, por la ausencia del color, y por el uso de patrones decorativos en forma de micrografía de carácter “islámico” o “mudéjar”, en una clara recuperación de esquemas decorativos de los manuscritos hebraicos del siglo XIII copiados en Toledo. Partiendo del estudio concreto de uno de esos manuscritos, la Biblia hebraica conocida como Biblia de Abravanel, conservada en la Universidade de Coimbra, se analiza la idiosincrasia decorativa de la “Escuela Andaluza” como una señal de resistencia sefardita, sea en relación al mundo cristiano (que dictará la expulsión de los judíos de Sevilla y Córdoba en 1483), sea en relación al crecimiento de las tendencias asquenazíes y cabalísticas en la Península. In this study one of these manuscripts, the Hebrew Bible known as the Abravanel Bible preserved at the University of Coimbra in Portugal, serves as a starting point for the discussion of the idiosyncrasies in the decorative programme of this ‘Andalusian School’, which symbolises the Sephardic resistance to the Christian world (that would eventually dictate the expulsion of the Jews from Seville and Cordoba in 1483), and to the growing Ashkenazi and cabalistic influences in the Iberian Peninsula. LA BIBLIA DE COIMBRA Y LA “ESCUELA ANDALUZA”
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