Karaite Joseph Ezra Dubitskii and King John III Sobieski: on Jewish physicians, Christianity, and a fifteenth-century illuminated manuscript from Windsor Castle.

An early fifteenth-century illuminated manuscript, known also as the Sobieski Book of Hours, is undoubtedly one of the most valuable medieval manuscripts from those currently kept in the Royal Library at Windsor Castle. Produced in the workshop of the Master of the Duke of Bedford in Paris between 1...

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Publicado en:East European Jewish Affairs Vol. 38; no. 1; pp. 45 - 65
Autor principal: Kizilov, Mikhail
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Publicado: Taylor & Francis Ltd Apr2008
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