Books within books: new discoveries in old book bindings
A Newly Discovered Fragment from Midrash Tanhuma in the Collection of Western European Manuscripts in the Russian State Library (Moscow)Josephus Torn to Pieces-Fragments of Sefer Yosippon in Genizat Germania; Binding Accounts: A Leger of a Jewish Pawn Broker from 14th Century Southern France (MS Kra...
| Summary: | A Newly Discovered Fragment from Midrash Tanhuma in the Collection of Western European Manuscripts in the Russian State Library (Moscow)Josephus Torn to Pieces-Fragments of Sefer Yosippon in Genizat Germania; Binding Accounts: A Leger of a Jewish Pawn Broker from 14th Century Southern France (MS Krakow, BJ Przyb/163/92); Hebrew Fragments as a Window on Economic Activity: Holdings in the Historical Archives of Girona (Arxiu Històric de Girona); Part Three Regional Projects; A Regional Perspective on Hebrew Fragments: The Case of Moravia Books with Books is the second collection of interdisciplinary articles on Hebrew Binding fragments, representing current scholarship and its international scope. The volume presents new manuscripts discoveries from several European countries Bindings and Covers: Fragments of Books and Notebooks from the Angelica Library (Biblioteca Angelica, Rome)Medieval Hebrew Manuscript Fragments in Switzerland: Some Highlights of the Discoveries; Newly Discovered Hebrew Fragments in the State Archive of Amberg (Bavaria)-Some Suggestions on Their Historical Background ; European Fragments in the Spines of the Book Collection of a Yemenite Community; Genizat Yerushalayim: The National Library of Israel in Jerusalem; Fragments as Objects: Medieval Austrian Fragments in the Jewish Museum of Vienna; Index of Persons; Index of Subjects List of Illustrations; Contributors; Editors' Foreword; Introduction: "Books within Books"-The State of Research and New Perspectives; Part One History of Research; Carta Pecudina Literis Hebraicis Scripta: The Awareness of the Binding Hebrew Fragments in History. An Overview and a Plaidoyer; Part Two Studies in Hebrew Fragments; The First Autograph of the Tosafists from the European Genizah; The Reconstruction of a Sefer Haftarot from the Rhine Valley: Towards a Typology of Ashkenazi Pentateuch Manuscripts |
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| Item Description: | Includes index. - Proceedings of the Eleventh eAJS Summer Colloquium, "Books within books-New discoveries in old book-bindings", held at Wolfson College, University of Oxford (July 18-20, 2011). - Print version record Proceedings of the Eleventh eAJS Summer Colloquium, "Books within books-New discoveries in old book-bindings", held at Wolfson College, University of Oxford (July 18-20, 2011) |
| ISBN: | 9004258507 |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/9789004258501 |