“Lisbon’s Hebrew Bible: Medieval Jewish Art in Context”

Like their Christian contemporaries, Jewish communities commissioned exquisite illuminated manuscripts during the Middle Ages. See one of the most stunning examples, the Cervera Bible, a late-13th-century Bible from Spain that is currently on loan from the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal. This example of Hebrew imagery survived despite the expulsion of Jews from both Spain and Portugal at the end of the 15th century.