Hebrew manuscripts of the Middle Ages
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Hebrew manuscripts of the Middle Ages
Cambridge University Press, 2002
Available at 4 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Bibliography: p. 320-335
Includes indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Hebrew manuscripts are our most important source of knowledge about Jewish intellectual, religious and everyday life in the Middle Ages, and anyone wishing to engage with medieval Jewish history needs to know about the manuscripts themselves, how to study them, and the literary genres to which they belong. Colette Sirat offers a comprehensive overview of these subjects in this illustrated introduction to Hebrew manuscript culture. This 2002 work is a considerably re-structured, extended and updated version of an earlier presentation in French. It now encompasses all aspects of Hebrew manuscripts - textual, codicological and palaeographical - combining different disciplines to give an all-embracing view of the subject. The volume has been translated from the author's revision of her earlier French book, and edited for an English readership, by leading Hebrew scholar Nicholas de Lange, who worked closely with Professor Sirat in the preparation of the new book.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Part I. Texts: 1. Before the Middle Ages
- 2. The Middle Ages
- Part II. Books: 3. Codicology
- 4. Writing: calligraphic and personal subjects
- 5. The scribe
- Appendix. Abbreviations, acrostics and the meaning of the Hebrew letters
- Part III. The History of Books and Texts: 6. The life and death of manuscripts
- 7. Libraries
- 8. Questions of method: codicology and palaeography
- 9. Texts, copies and text-editions
- 10. Judgement on readings and the edition of texts
- Part IV. Some Manuscripts: 11. Ten manuscripts: pictures and detailed descriptions.
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