On October 19, Sotheby’s New York will auction the magnificent Luzzatto High Holiday Mahzor, one of the earliest known illustrated Hebrew prayerbooks.

The Luzzatto High Holiday Mahzor, created in southern Germany in late 13th or early 14th century, is one of fewer than 20 such prayer books believed to be in existence. According to Sotheby’s, it is the most important medieval illustrated prayer book to be offered for sale in a century…


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About Julie Harris

Julie Harris is a specialist in the art of medieval Iberia. She has published on ivory carving, the fate of art and architecture during the Reconquest, and illuminated Hebrew manuscripts. She has participated in three of Therese Martin’s international research projects: “Reassessing the Role of Women as Makers” the “Treasury of San Isidoro in León,” and the ongoing “Medieval Iberian Treasury in Context: Collections, Connections, and Representations on the Peninsula and Beyond.” Her recent publications have appeared in Gesta, the Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies, Medieval Encounters, Journal of Medieval History and Abstraction in Medieval Art: Beyond the Ornament, edited by Elina Gertsman (AUP, 2021). She was recently awarded a Center for Spain in America fellowship at the Clark Institute for her project on the decorative Carpet pages of Iberian Hebrew Bibles.