b'J.P. Roland-Marcel called the illumination of the Statute of Kalisz Szyks masterpiece and claimed that it placed him on the same level as the best illuminators of the sixteenth century. See J.P. Ansell, Arthur Szyk pp. 51-61. If the Haggadah is viewed as Szyks most famous illustrated work, surely his Statute of Kalisz is his single most important historic work. Reecting the highest form of medieval manuscript illumination, this portfolio often has been called The Jewish Magna Carta. With the afrmation of civil and religious liberties and freedoms for Jews by the Grand Duke of Poland, Boleslav the Pious, in 1264, the Golden Age of Polish Jewry was initiated. In this work, Szyk illuminates the mutually benecial relationship that ourished between Poles and Jews for hundreds of years. I. Ungar, Justice Illuminated: The Art of Arthur Szyk (1998) p.15. See also J. P. Ansell, Art against Prejudice: Arthur Szyks Statute of Kalisz, in: Journal of Decorative and Propaganda Arts (1989) pp. 46-6.90'