"I am the scribe, Joel ben Simeon"

Description:

"This publication focuses on the Veneto Siddur-Sefer Minhagim, a Hebrew manuscript newly attributed to the artist-scribe Joel ben Simeon, made for a Jewish immigrant family from Germany probably living in Treviso. Joel ben Simeon (active c. 1440s - c. 1490) is one of the most famous figures in late medieval Hebrew manuscript production. Born in Germany, he spent most of his career in northern Italy as an itinerant craftsman. Previously unrecorded in the extensive literature on Joel ben Simeon, the present manuscript includes the earliest known copy of this version of the Sefer Minhagim, written in 1449/1450, and more than 500 pen and ink drawings added by Joel around 1470, thus significantly increasing the artist's corpus"--Cover

subjects: Jewish Scribes,  Biography,  Haggadot,  Texts,  Seder,  Liturgy,  Jewish illumination of books and manuscripts,  Scribes juifs,  Biographies,  Textes,  Enluminure juive,  Manuscrits hébreux

People: Joel ben Simeon (active 15th century),  Ywʼel ben Šimʿwn (14..-15)