Hebrew Manuscripts of the Middle Ages

ISBN-13: 9780521770798 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 366 str.

Colette Sirat

Opis

Hebrew manuscripts are our most important source of knowledge about Jewish medieval life, and anyone wishing to engage with Jewish history needs to know about the manuscripts, how to study them, and their literary genres. Colette Sirat offers a comprehensive overview of these subjects in this illustrated introduction. The book is a re-structured, extended and updated version of an earlier presentation in French. It has been translated from the author's revision of her earlier French book, and edited for an English readership, by Hebrew scholar Nicholas de Lange.

Recenzje

'C. Sirat's Hebrew Manuscripts of the Middle Ages is a long-awaited English introduction to the study of Medieval manuscripts in Hebrew script … a mature and thoroughly researched account of the unique cultural and intellectual enterprise of manuscript making, illustrated by highly relevant and striking examples of individual books and scribes from different periods and parts of the Medieval world … Hebrew Manuscripts of the Middle Ages is an important, full and fascinating introduction to the study of Hebrew book-making in the Middle Ages, and it can be recommended to students, scholars and all those interested in Hebrew manuscripts, as well as in Jewish literature and intellectual history in general.' Journal of Jewish Studies

Spis treści

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.