Today at Manuscript, Rare Book & Archive Studies (MARBAS) we're highlighting the source of our little draconic logo, which comes from the codex British Library, Add MS 21160. This is a 13th/14th century manuscript of the Hebrew Bible and it contains multiple examples of micrography: an art form that creates representational or abstract designs from miniature Hebrew letters. This was a distinctive technique created by Hebrew scribes in medieval Christian Europe and the Islamicate world.

Our micrographic dragon appears on folio 19r, alongside Genesis 1:24–25's description of God's creation of the land animals. More examples of micrographic creatures abound through the manuscript -- take a look at its digitized reproduction on the British Library's Digitised Manuscripts webpage ( https://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=add_ms_21160_fs019r ) to see more!

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I thought I did an #introduction, but maybe that was way back when there were server issues at the very beginning? Anyway, here I am:

Librarian for Jewish Studies at Columbia U, co-director Footprints: Jewish Books Through Time and Place, President @ Association of Jewish Libraries - I mostly post #hebrewmanuscripts and #jewishmanuscripts, Jewish #bookhistory, #dhjewish, #mazeldon

This just in: new digitization!
A manuscript compilation of texts, including a prayer book with Kabbalistic interpretations by the Lurian school, and two texts attributed to Leybl Prossnits: a commentary on the book of Ruth, and an interpretation of the letters of the alphabet

Sidur ha-Ari ; Tsadiḳ yesod ʻolam ; Raza de-atṿin galifin

X893 L89

https://archive.org/details/ldpd_17340987_000/page/n9/mode/2up
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The Footprints project is pleased to announce a call for applications for a workshop on early modern Mizrahi #paleography, scheduled for May of 2023. Info here: https://edblogs.columbia.edu/footprints/2022/12/09/paleography-workshop-may-2023-call-for-applicants/

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Here's a 17th century #judeoarabic commentary on Isaiah citing many standard commentators (Radak, R' Yonah, Rashi, etc.) #hebrewmanuscripts #culhebrewmss

https://archive.org/details/ldpd_15995915_000/mode/2up

Catalog record here: https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/7927068 (call number: MS X893.1 BC P437)

Until I can figure out how to get the #culhebrewmss bot running here, I'll have to manually tweet them. #hebrewmanuscripts

Here's a treatise on #astronomy by Isaac Lopis of Aleppo (1704). I especially love the faces of the sun :)

Tekhunat ha-ʻolam u-binah le-ʻitim : bo yitbaʼer tsurat ha-arets ṿe-tavnit ha-ʻolam

https://archive.org/details/ldpd_11543165_000