This manuscript contains the full text of the Pentateuch and
haftarot (weekly readings from the Prophets). The manuscript has
six illuminated initial word panels found at the beginning of each
of the books of the Pentateuch and at the heading of the haftarot.
The semi-cursive Sephardic Hebrewscript and other codicological
features of this manuscript point toward a Sephardic origin from
the second half of the fifteenth century. It is likely that the
Braginsky Pentateuch was the work of an artist who was active in
the Lisbon School, which is known for producing around 30
distinctive manuscripts characterized by their largely
non-figurative decoration: filigree initial word panels, floral and
abstract pen work in purple ink, and multicolored dots and flowers.
Place
Preferred form
Portugal
Original form
[Portugal, copied by a scribe named Moses or Aaron (?)]
