14th-15th century AD. A large vellum carpet manuscript page from a Masoretic Bible in Hebrew; three urns with flowers formed from text to the centre, surrounded by a wide band of complex interlaced motifs also formed from text, with three bands of text either side. See Masoretic Text (Hebrew-English), online full edition of the bilingual JPS Tanakh (1985) on Sefaria.37 grams, 40.5 x 28.5cm (16 x 11 1/4"). Ex central London gallery; formerly with Sotheby's, London, UK, 17 June 2003, lot 74; this lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by AIAD certificate number no. 10509-170689. The Masoretic Text (???? ??????) is the authoritative Hebrew and Aramaic text of the 24 books of the Tanakh in Rabbinic Judaism. It was primarily copied, edited and distributed by a group of Jews known as the Masoretes between the 7th and 10th centuries of the Common Era (CE").