Piet van Boxel

Crossing Borders: Hebrew Manuscripts as a Meeting-place of Cultures

Title	Description	People	Date
Conclusion to Crossing Borders	The conclusion to the Crossing Borders exhibition. The exhibition tells the story of how Jews, Christians and Muslims have contributed to the development of the book.	Piet van Boxel	10 May, 2010
Sciences	Piet looks at how the works of famous ancient thinkers such as Aristotle, Hippocrates, Euclid or Ptolemy traveled from culture to culture and formed the basis of Muslim, Christian and Jewish science and philosophy alike.	Piet van Boxel	10 May, 2010
User-produced Hebrew Prayer Books and Shared Iconography	Some Hebrew manuscripts were produced in Christian workshops, others were made by Jewish artists themselves for their own use. Piet looks at examples of these and explores the shared iconography between Christian and Jewish faiths, such as the unicorn.	Piet van Boxel	10 May, 2010
Hebrew Prayer Books for Public Use	Piet looks at the three great Bodleian mahzorim (large and elaborately decorated prayer books for the festivals), which were illuminated by Christian painters in collaboration with and under the supervision of Jewish scribes.	Piet van Boxel	10 May, 2010
Arabic Art Forms in Spanish Book Production	Piet explains Arabic design and illustration in Spanish books, looking in particular at the Kennicott Bible, produced in La Coruna, Spain, in 1476.	Piet van Boxel	10 May, 2010
From Roll to Codex	Piet explains codices, the oldest manuscripts in book form, looking in particular at a fragment of the Hebrew text of the book of Ecclesiasticus (ch. 40) from the Cairo Genizah, and the four Gospels in Syriac.	Piet van Boxel	6 May, 2010
Introduction to Crossing Borders	An introduction to the Crossing Borders exhibition. The exhibition tells the story of how Jews, Christians and Muslims have contributed to the development of the book.	Piet van Boxel	6 May, 2010