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English: At the bottom of the frontispiece of Book Twelve of Maimonides's Mishneh Torah, “The Book of Donations and Acquisitions,” we see Moses delivering the Tablets of the Law to the people of Israel.
Since the book contains the laws concerning donations and acquisitions, the artist has illustrated the frontispiece with the offering of the true gift, the revelation of the Law. The scene refers to a legend concerning the Biblical text: God uprooted Mount Sinai and placed it upside down, like an inverted basket, over the Israelites, in order to force them to accept the Law with its onerous obligations. The illustration shows Moses displaying the tablets of the Law to the Israelites, whose heads appear inside an opening in the mountain. |
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Source | The Kaufmann Kollection |
Author | Unknown authorUnknown author |
Other versions | File:MS77d-032r-large.jpg |
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File change date and time | 14:01, 8 August 2008 |
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