Abraham and Nimrod from BL Add 14761, f. 36v

Detail of a page: historiated initial-word panel with gold letters: ~Mi-thilah~ at the beginning of the passage, 'In the beginning our fathers were idolators'. Around the initial-word panel, two midrashic scenes: on the left side of the panel, Abraham standing in front of king Nimrod, beneath the panel, Abraham in the fiery furnace flanked by two angels (see e.g. Genesis Rabbah 38:13). Image taken from f. 36v of Haggadah, liturgical poems and biblical readings for Passover (The 'Barcelona Haggadah'), Sephardic rite. Written in Hebrew.