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Article: Arabesques and E-Cantors; In Prague, a Digital Re-envisioning of the Marseilles Bible
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Cohen, Joshua
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03-11-2005
Around 1260, in the Spanish town of Toledo -- then a prime seat of Jewish
thought and art -- an unknown scribe or possibly scribes gave life to a
manuscript breathtaking in its rare beauty and hermetic symbolism, at once
traditional and yet culturally reckless. Its pages -- abundant in imagery
while respecting the prohibitions against human representation -- feature
floral motifs ringing abstract geometry, heliotropic swirls grouped in
gematric (kabbalistic numerological) formulations, whorls of vivid colors
scarcely dimmed through the centuries above vaunting arches painted into
the page to frame columns of sacred text. An admixture of Muslim and
Christian graphic ...
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