North French Hebrew Miscellany

Illustration of Noah's Ark landing on the Mountains of Ararat (fol. 521a).
Left, scenes with Abraham from Genesis, ch 18; right, David

The North French Hebrew Miscellany or "French Miscellany" or "London Miscellany" (British Library Add. MS 11639) is an important Hebrew illuminated manuscript from 13th-century France, created c. 1278-98.[1] A miscellany is a manuscript containing texts of different types and by different authors, and this volume contains a wide range of Hebrew language texts, mostly religious but many secular. The manuscript is exceptional among medieval Hebrew manuscripts both for its size and the diversity of the texts and the quality and lavishness of its illuminations, which as was often the case were added by Christian specialists.[2]

This manuscript was digitized by the British Library's Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project[3] and is available online.[4]

  1. ^ Tahan's c. 1278-98 is here preferred to BM's 1277-1286, see below.
  2. ^ Tahan, 10-11; BM
  3. ^ "Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project".
  4. ^ "Digitised Manuscripts".