Hebrew Manuscripts of the Middle Ages
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Product details:
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 21 March 2002
- ISBN 9780521770798
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages366 pages
- Size 244x170x21 mm
- Weight 780 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 169 b/w illus. 0
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Short description:
An illustrated 2002 introduction to Hebrew manuscript culture from the tenth to fifteenth centuries.
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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.
'From the mundane to the sublime - there is something for everyone ... in these well-illustrated pages ... an elegantly produced and superb introduction to the study of Hebrew manuscripts, their scribes, and their contents that will enlighten students and scholars alike ... a book written by a master of the material with a sensitive eye and a sharp reed ... a tribute to the book making craft and Cambridge University Press should be praised for its aesthetic production.' The Jewish Studies Newsletter
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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