Books within books : : new discoveries in old book bindings / / edited by Andreas Lehnardt, Judith Olszowy-Schlanger.

• Superior document: 'European Genizah': text and studies ; v. 2
• TeilnehmendeR: Lehnardt, Andreas.; Olszowy-Schlanger, Judith.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden : : Brill,, 2014.
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Jewish history and culture ; v. 42; 'European Genizah': texts and studies ; v. 2.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (362 p.)
• Notes: 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).

Books within Books presents some recent findings and research projects on the fragments of medieval Hebrew manuscripts discovered in the bindings of other manuscripts and early printed books across Europe. This is the second collection of interdisciplinary articles on Hebrew binding fragments presenting current scholarship and its international scope. From the contemporary perspective, the fragments of medieval Hebrew manuscripts preserved until today, through their numbers (estimated 30,000 fragments, so more than double of the number of the known Hebrew volumes produced in medieval Europe ), the texts they carry (some of them have been previously unknown), the insights into book making techniques and finally their economic impact, are an unprecedented source for our knowledge of the Hebrew book culture and literacy as well as the economic and intellectual exchanges between the Jewish minority and their non-Jewish neighbours.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Introduction: “Books within Βooks”—The State of Research and New Perspectives / Andreas Lehnardt and Judith Olszowy-Schlanger -- Carta Pecudina Literis Hebraicis Scripta: The Awareness of the Binding Hebrew Fragments in History. An Overview and a Plaidoyer / Saverio Campanini -- The First Autograph of the Tosafists from the European Genizah / Simcha Emanuel -- The Reconstruction of a Sefer Haftarot from the Rhine Valley: Towards a Typology of Ashkenazi Pentateuch Manuscripts / Judith Kogel -- A Newly Discovered Fragment from Midrash Tanhuma in the Collection of Western European Manuscripts in the Russian State Library (Moscow) / Alina Lisitsina -- Josephus Torn to Pieces—Fragments of Sefer Yosippon in Genizat Germania / Saskia Dönitz -- Binding Accounts: A Leger of a Jewish Pawn Broker from 14th Century Southern France (MS Krakow, BJ Przyb/163/92) / Judith Olszowy-Schlanger -- Hebrew Fragments as a Window on Economic Activity: Holdings in the Historical Archives of Girona (Arxiu Històric de Girona) / Esperança Valls i Pujol -- A Regional Perspective on Hebrew Fragments: The Case of Moravia / Tamás Visi and Magdaléna Jánošíková -- Bindings and Covers: Fragments of Books and Notebooks from the Angelica Library (Biblioteca Angelica, Rome) / Emma Abate -- Medieval Hebrew Manuscript Fragments in Switzerland: Some Highlights of the Discoveries / Justine Isserles -- Newly Discovered Hebrew Fragments in the State Archive of Amberg (Bavaria)—Some Suggestions on Their Historical Background / Andreas Lehnardt -- European Fragments in the Spines of the Book Collection of a Yemenite Community / Michael Krupp -- Genizat Yerushalayim: The National Library of Israel in Jerusalem / Abraham David -- Fragments as Objects: Medieval Austrian Fragments in the Jewish Museum of Vienna / Martha Keil -- Index of Persons -- Index of Subjects.