History of Art and Architecture

"Manuscript Studies" journal publishes article by Sarah Bromberg

The article is titled: "The Position of Jewish Art and Exegesis in an Illustrated Christian Biblical Commentary: Ezekiel’s Vision of the Tetramorph in Fourteenth- and Fifteenth-Century Manuscript and Printed Copies of Nicholas of Lyra’s Postilla litteralis." The article examines beautifully illuminated and printed copies of the Postilla litteralis (1322-1333), a biblical commentary originally written and illustrated by Nicholas of Lyra, a Franciscan biblical scholar at the University of Paris. As context, the article also examines Hebrew manuscript illuminations and rabbinic texts. To read the full article, please visit Project MUSE's website.