Antiquities of the Jews | |
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National Library of Poland | |
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Also known as | Antiquitates Iudaicae |
Type | codex |
Date | 1466 |
Place of origin | Kraków |
Language(s) | Latin |
Scribe(s) | Maciej (abbey's organist) |
Author(s) | Flavius Josephus |
Illuminated by | Master of Kraków Cathedral's Missal (Master of the Virgin with the Unicorn) |
Patron | Maciej Skawinka |
Size | 45x32,5 cm, 448 pages [1] |
Accession | Rps BOZ 1 [1] |
Antiquities of the Jews ( Latin: Antiquitates Iudaicae) is an illuminated manuscript from 1466 containing Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus. [2]
The manuscript is a case of a medieval book made entirely in Poland that has survived unchanged to the present day. [2] It was commissioned by the Maciej Skawinka, abbot of the Benedictines in Tyniec, written and illuminated in Kraków in 1466. [2] [3] The binding was made by a bookbinder also in Kraków. [2] In 1815, it was sold to Stanisław Kostka Zamoyski and incorporated into the library of the Zamoyski family in the Blue Palace in Warsaw. [3] [2] After the Second World War, Jan Zamoyski, the final owner of the Zamoyski family fee tail, deposited the family library with the National Library of Poland. [2] From May 2024, the manuscript is presented at a permanent exhibition in the Palace of the Commonwealth in Warsaw. [4]
The manuscript contains twelve of the series of twenty books by the Jewish historian Flavius Josephus. [2] The codex was copied by the abbey's organist Maciej in Gothic script in two columns. [3] The Gothic binding of wooden boards covered with blind-tooled brown leather was made sometime after 1466. [3] The tome is decorated with 15 initials, seven of which are figurative representations of themes taken from the Old Testament. [3] The manuscript's decorations are the work of two Kraków illuminators. [3] The majority of the miniatures was painted by the Master of Kraków Cathedral's Missal, also called the Master of the Virgin with the Unicorn. [3] The margins are ornamented by multicoloured floral patterns. [3] On the first page is the abbey's coat of arms. [5]
Antiquities of the Jews | |
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National Library of Poland | |
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Also known as | Antiquitates Iudaicae |
Type | codex |
Date | 1466 |
Place of origin | Kraków |
Language(s) | Latin |
Scribe(s) | Maciej (abbey's organist) |
Author(s) | Flavius Josephus |
Illuminated by | Master of Kraków Cathedral's Missal (Master of the Virgin with the Unicorn) |
Patron | Maciej Skawinka |
Size | 45x32,5 cm, 448 pages [1] |
Accession | Rps BOZ 1 [1] |
Antiquities of the Jews ( Latin: Antiquitates Iudaicae) is an illuminated manuscript from 1466 containing Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus. [2]
The manuscript is a case of a medieval book made entirely in Poland that has survived unchanged to the present day. [2] It was commissioned by the Maciej Skawinka, abbot of the Benedictines in Tyniec, written and illuminated in Kraków in 1466. [2] [3] The binding was made by a bookbinder also in Kraków. [2] In 1815, it was sold to Stanisław Kostka Zamoyski and incorporated into the library of the Zamoyski family in the Blue Palace in Warsaw. [3] [2] After the Second World War, Jan Zamoyski, the final owner of the Zamoyski family fee tail, deposited the family library with the National Library of Poland. [2] From May 2024, the manuscript is presented at a permanent exhibition in the Palace of the Commonwealth in Warsaw. [4]
The manuscript contains twelve of the series of twenty books by the Jewish historian Flavius Josephus. [2] The codex was copied by the abbey's organist Maciej in Gothic script in two columns. [3] The Gothic binding of wooden boards covered with blind-tooled brown leather was made sometime after 1466. [3] The tome is decorated with 15 initials, seven of which are figurative representations of themes taken from the Old Testament. [3] The manuscript's decorations are the work of two Kraków illuminators. [3] The majority of the miniatures was painted by the Master of Kraków Cathedral's Missal, also called the Master of the Virgin with the Unicorn. [3] The margins are ornamented by multicoloured floral patterns. [3] On the first page is the abbey's coat of arms. [5]