bodleian library jun 2020 (2 Ergebnisse)

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Looks at all the uses of plants in the home in the 17th century, from their use in cooking and brewing to medicine and cosmetics, the making and caring of clothes, and decoration.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Representing four centuries of collecting and a thousand years of Jewish history, this book brings together Hebrew manuscripts and rare books from the Bodleian Library and Oxford colleges. Highlights of the extraordinary collections include a fragment of Maimonides' autograph draft of the Mishneh Torah, the earliest dated fragment of the Talmud, exquisitely illuminated manuscripts of the Hebrew Bible, stunning festival prayer books, and one of the oldest surviving Jewish seals in England. Lavishly illustrated essays by experts in the field bring these outstanding works to life, exploring the personalities and diverse motivations of their original collectors.