9 février 2021
Sara Offenberg, « Sword and Buckler in Hebrew Letters: Traces of Early Illuminated German Fight Books in Jewish Manuscripts », Martial Culture in Medieval Town, ID : 10670/1.4zltdv
Two manuscripts produced in early fourteenth-century German-speaking areas reflect similar iconography of fighting with sword and buckler; one is the well-known fencing treatise, Leeds, Royal Armouries, MS I. 33, produced ca. 1320,[1] and the other is a Hebrew manuscript of the Bible made in 1304, that will be the focus of this article. Four figures with sword and buckler are portrayed as masorah figurata[2] on the lower margins of the opening page of Hebrew Bible, Paris, Bibliothèque nation...