The late medieval Hebrew book in the Western Mediterranean : : Hebrew manuscripts and incunabula in context / / edited by Javier del Barco.

This collection takes the Hebrew book as a focal point for exploring the production, circulation, transmission, and consumption of Hebrew texts in the cultural context of the late medieval western Mediterranean. The authors elaborate in particular on questions concerning private vs. public book prod...

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Superior document:Études sur le Judaïsme Médiéval ; v. 65
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill.
c2015.
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
Series:Études sur le judaïsme médiéval 65.
Physical Description:1 online resource (390 p.)
Notes:Includes indexes.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Introduction / Javier del Barco
  • 1 Commissioned and Owner-Produced Manuscripts in the Sephardi Zone and Italy in the Thirteenth–Fifteenth Centuries / Malachi Beit-Arié
  • 2 Immigrant Scribes’ Handwriting in Northern Italy from the Late Thirteenth to the Mid-Sixteenth Century: Sephardi and Ashkenazi Attitudes toward the Italian Script / Edna Engel
  • 3 Studia of Philosophy as Scribal Centers in Fifteenth-Century Iberia / Colette Sirat
  • 4 Jewish Book Owners and Their Libraries in the Iberian Peninsula, Fourteenth–Fifteenth Centuries / Joseph R. Hacker
  • 5 Inscribing Piety in Late-Thirteenth-Century Perpignan / Eva Frojmovic
  • 6 The Scholarly Interests of a Scribe and Mapmaker in Fourteenth-Century Majorca: Elisha ben Abraham Bevenisti Cresques’s Bookcase / Katrin Kogman-Appel
  • 7 Le‘azim in David Kimhi’s Sefer ha-shorashim: Scribes and Printers through Space and Time / Judith Kogel
  • 8 Fifteenth-Century Castilian Translations from Hebrew Literature / Sonia Fellous
  • 9 The Artist of the Barcelona Haggadah / Evelyn M. Cohen
  • 10 Quotations, Translations, and Uses of Jewish Texts in Ramon Martí’s Pugio fidei / Philippe Bobichon
  • 11 Unknown Sephardi Incunabula / Shimon M. Iakerson
  • 12 What Do We Know about Hebrew Printing in Guadalajara, Híjar, and Zamora? / Adri K. Offenberg
  • 13 Techne and Culture: Printers and Readers in Fifteenth-Century Hispano-Jewish Communities / Eleazar Gutwirth
  • General Index
  • Index of Manuscripts and Incunabula.