500 years after the expulsion of Spain’s Jews, medieval Bible comes home

Priceless volume that survived centuries after exile of its persecuted owners finally returns to Galicia

On a summer’s day in 1476 a scribe called Moses Ibn Zabarah put the finishing touches to an enormous and magnificently illustrated Hebrew Bible commissioned by the son of a wealthy Jewish family from Galicia, north-western Spain.

“The blessed Lord grant that he study it, he and his children and his children’s children throughout all generations,” he wrote.

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