Paola bt. Abraham b. Yoav

פולה בת אברהם בי"ר יואב

1293

Paola served as a scribe in Rome from 1288-92. Her grandfather, Rabbi Nathan ben Yeḥiel (1035–1110), penned Sefer HaʾArukh, widely acclaimed as the inaugural comprehensive Jewish dictionary.

See Frojmovic, Eva. Skies of Parchment, Seas of Ink : Jewish Illuminated Manuscripts. Ed. Marc Michael Epstein. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2015;

Fishbane, Michael, and Joanna Weinberg, eds. Midrash Unbound : Transformations and Innovations. Oxford: The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2016.