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Hebrew manuscripts of the Middle Ages

This illustrated 2002 introduction to Hebrew manuscript culture encompasses all aspects of Hebrew manuscripts - textual, codicological and palaeographical - combining different disciplines to give an all-embracing view of the subject. A description of the history of texts in Hebrew reveals the range and variety of texts - many of which have never been printed.
Print Book, English, 2008
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2008
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9780521090230, 9780521770798, 0521090237, 0521770793
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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.
Originally published: 2002
Translated from the French