King Solomon This beautiful treasure is a portrait of King Solomon reading Torat Mosheh (Moses’s Torah). It comes from a North French Hebrew Miscellany, dated 1277-1324 and is part of the British Library’s Hebrew Collection. This archive was assembled over a 250 year period, initially by the British Museum and since 1973 by the British Library. It’s one of the most important Jewish-related archives in the world, encompassing all facets of Hebrew literature and a wide range of religious and secular area studies. All Hebrew manuscripts in the British Library’s collection have been fully digitised and are available free of charge on the British Library’s Digitised Manuscripts site. Discover more Hidden Treasures Hidden Treasures: Celebrating the documents, photos and artefacts in British archives that tell the story of Jews in Britain British Library’s Hebrew collection Cultural | Historical DocumentsPartially online The British Library’s Hebrew collection is held within the British Library, Britain’s national library. It is open to researchers and contains a […] Cosmological & Astronomical Chart Cosmological and astronomical chart • The British Library 8th Century Judaeo-Persian letter from Kaifeng, Henan province, China One of the earliest records of the Jewish community in China • British Library