The Torah is blindfolded in a Jewish manuscript

A 14th-century Jewish manuscript depicts the Torah blindfolded alongside her spouse, the people of Israel. This image paradoxically draws inspiration from the negative personifications of the Synagogue created by medieval Christian iconography to illustrate the rejection of the New Covenant. The copy in question, preserved under the shelfmark Cod. Lev. 37 in Hamburg, bears witness to this surprising appropriation of an otherwise anti-Jewish motif.