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Berkowitz #31 Yemenite Pentateuch 15th C - written bold square
characters of Yemenite origin - on paper.
"Although printing in Hebrew type was to be common in
Constantinople early in the 16th C, it would be long before
the Arabian peninsula experienced the invasion of type +
consequentlythe manuscript tradition continued to
fourish there"
Yemenite school of illumination - surviving example of
which date from the end of the 14th C + later developed
to its fullest capacity only in the 2nd half of the
15th C. Yemenite Bibles were embellished with floral carpet
pages + micrography in geometrical forms. These
Bibles contain no text illustrations.
- Oriental Hebrew + Arabic manuscripts share the
same types of paper characterized by glosiness,
absence of chain lines. Paper without visible
wire lines at all seen in all the MSS written
in Yemen during the Middle Ages.