The RAMBAM did not have Payos ?
I've wondered that myself. Some newish seforim (the Artscroll Biography of Rambam?) fill the payos in, which appears to be in accordance with the "original" presented here. The question remains: when the Rambam image first lose its payos?
I used to wonder about that too but of course it is not considered an exact portrait and in any event I'm not sure anyone has further info to say what happened to the payos even if the lack of it was real.
oh baby.
that last paragraph's rant is really delicious. I'm can't wait to show some people.
See http://www.library.yale.edu/juda...o/
exhibit2.html, where the description of the 1744 portrait says, "Though it is completely imaginary (we have no way of knowing what he looked like), it has become the conventional portrait of the sage and appears on the cover of the standard notebook that has been used by generations of children in Hebrew school."
And the following is from an article by E. L. Segal:
I visited Jerusalem's L. A. Meyer Museum of Islamic Culture. There among the many fascinating artifacts was sitting a copy of the familiar portrait of Maimonides--except that according to the caption on the exhibit, it was a 16th century Turkish merchant!
It would seem that the early Hebrew printers in Venice or Constantinople, eager to supply their readers with a tangible likeness of the Egyptian Jewish scholar, had simply pulled out an available piece of "clip art" that conveyed a rough image, of what he might have looked like. That picture has defined our conception of Maimonides ever since.
check two different portraits of maimonides. in both he has his payot:
http://www.aoc.gov/cc/art/lawgiv.../
maimonides.cfm
and also at the end of the page of this site where there is a spanish postage stamp of him:
http://www.fuenterrebollo.com/Pe...s/
historia.html
"oh baby.
that last paragraph's rant is really delicious. I'm can't wait to show some people.
Holy Hyrax"
You must have an exciting life.
>blue 'Machberes' notebook<
this reminds me of something I heard on the radio this morning. The broadcaster said he had a ספיישל מיוחד for the listeners.
Ah, but of course. But we were conditioned to think of "Machberes" as the brand name (which it kind of was).
>I visited Jerusalem's L. A. Meyer Museum of Islamic Culture. There among the many fascinating artifacts was sitting a copy of the familiar portrait of Maimonides--except that according to the caption on the exhibit, it was a 16th century Turkish merchant!
>It would seem that the early Hebrew printers in Venice or Constantinople, eager to supply their readers with a tangible likeness of the Egyptian Jewish scholar, had simply pulled out an available piece of "clip art" that conveyed a rough image, of what he might have looked like. That picture has defined our conception of Maimonides ever since.
That is most interesting.
I don't recognize he peyoth in any of the images. What makes you think he had peyoth anyway?
More information about Moses Margoliouth can be found in a biography of him called "Moses, A Short Account of the Life of Reverend Moses Margoliouth" by Peter Jones (1999). See page 47 for an account of this dispute with Dr Benisch.
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