Composition Analysis of Writing Materials in Cairo Genizah Documents

Cambridge Genizah Studies Series, Volume 15
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-90-04-44887-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 91, 194 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 508 g

Reihe: Études sur le judaïsme médiéval / Cambridge Genizah Studies

Through the application of scientific methods of analysis to a corpus of medieval manuscripts found in the Cairo Genizah, this work aims to gain a better understanding of the writing materials used by Jewish communities at that time, shedding new light not only on the production of manuscripts in the Middle Ages, but also on the life of those Jewish communities.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cohen, Zina

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien Heilige & Traditionstexte: Torah, Talmud, Mischna, Halacha

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgement

List of Figures

List of Tables

Abbreviations

Résumé [Francais]

Kurzfassung [Deutsch]

Introduction

1 The Cairo Genizah

1 Historical Background

2 Presentation of the Corpus

2 Writing Materials

1 Writing Surfaces

2 Writing Inks

3 Experimental Methods

1 Experimental Protocol

4 Results and Discussion

1 Use of Writing Surfaces

2 Ink Typology

3 Elemental Composition of the Inks and Writing Surfaces within the General Dataset

4 Conclusion of the Chapter

5 Implications of This Research, Conclusions and Outlook

1 Inks Detected on Jewish Legal Documents

2 Arabic Documents

3 Religious Documents

4 Autographs of Maimonides

5 Conclusions and Outlook

Documents Studied

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Zina Cohen holds a joint PhD (2020) in archaeometry from the École Pratique des Hautes Études, laboratory Saprat and the University of Hamburg. She specialises in the analysis of writing materials to better understand their use during the Middle Ages. Her current work focuses on the analysis of inks and pigments used in a corpus of monastic manuscripts as part of the Coenotur project.