Inhabited initial word from BL Add 26896, f. 32v

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Inhabited initial word from BL Add 26896, f. 32v

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Initial word inhabited by hybrids and framed by an arcade with two towers and inhabited by dogs chasing deer, at the beginning of a liturgical poem for ~Shabbat Sheqalim~ (for the poem, see Davidson vol. 1, no. 3853). Image taken from f. 32v of Festival prayer book (~mahzor~) for the Special Shabbatot, Passover, Shavuot with the Book of Ruth, and Ninth of Av with the Book of Lamentations, Ashkenazi rite (aka 'Tinted Mahzor'). Written in Hebrew.

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1300 - 1500
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British Library
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