Sefer Tagin Fragments from the Cairo Genizah

A Critical Edition, Commentary and Reconstruction. Cambridge Genizah Studies Series, Volume 12
Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-90-04-42635-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 85, 268 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 544 g

Reihe: Études sur le judaïsme médiéval / Cambridge Genizah Studies

In Sefer Tagin Fragments from the Cairo Genizah, Marc Michaels transcribes and recreates fragments of arguably the earliest found manuscript of the manual for sofrim (scribes) concerning the decorative tagin (tittles) and 'strange' letter forms that adorn certain words in the Torah. Comparing these found fragments against other core and secondary sources of Sefer Tagin (including several pages of a new secondary source), Michaels establishes the most likely readings to assist the reconstruction of the fragments and shed light on the original intention of the author of Sefer Tagin.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Michaels, Marc

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

List of Assigned Sigla

List of Figures, Tables and Reconstructions

Note on Transliteration

1 Introduction

1 The ‘Strange Letters’, Visual midrash and Sefer Tagin

2 A Brief Introduction to tagin

3 Sefer Tagin—A Manual for sofrim (Scribes)

4 The Corpus of Textual Witnesses to Sefer Tagin—Core and Secondary Sources

5 Some Example Uses in Sifrey Torah

6 Adding to the Core Corpus, Oxford Bodleian MS. Heb. d. 33/3 (fol. 9), a Known Fragment from the Cairo Genizah

2 A New (Partial) Witness

1 T-S D1.42—Two New Pages from a Version of Sefer Tagin Identified from the Cairo Genizah

2 Dating and Locating T-S D1.42

3 Identifying Additional Joins, T-S AS 139.152, T-S NS 287.11 and T-S AS 139.144

4 An Additional Find, a Secondary Source T-S Misc. 24.182 from the Cairo Genizah

5 Dating T-S Misc. 24.182

3 Transcription and Analysis

1 Diacritical Conventions

2 Digital Composition and Font Construction

Part 1

4 Critical Analysis of T-S D.142

1 End of Listing of Instances for the First Special Letter he Form

2 Description and Example Forms of the First Special Letter he

3 Description and Example Forms of the Second Special Letter he

4 Listing of Instances for the Second Special Letter he

5 Description and Example Forms of the Special Letter vav

6 Listing of Instances for the Special Letter vav

7 Description and Example Forms of the First Special Letter zayin

8 Listing of Instances for the First Special Letter zayin

9 Description and Example Forms of the Second Special Letter zayin

10 Listing of Instances for the Second Special Letter zayin

11 Description and Example Forms of the First Special Letter ?et

12 Listing of Instances for the First Special Letter ?et

13 Description and Example Forms of the Second Special Letter ?et

14 Listing of Instances for the Second Special Letter ?et

15 Description and Example Forms of the Special Letter ?et

16 Listing of Instances for the Special Letter ?et

17 Summary—T-S D1.42

Part 2

5 Analysis and Reconstruction of Joined Fragments

1 Reconstruction of Additional Pages of Our New Core Source

2 Continuing the Listing for the Special Letter ?et

3 Description and Example Forms of the Special Letter yod

4 Listing of Instances for the Special Letter yod

5 Description and Example Forms of the Special Letter kaf

6 Listing of Instances for the Special Letter kaf

7 Description and Example Forms of the First Special Letter kaf sofit

8 Listing of Instances for the First Special Letter kaf sofit

9 Description and Example Forms of the Second Special Letter kaf sofit

10 Listing of Instances for the Second Special Letter kaf sofit

11 Description and Example Forms of the Special Letter lamed

12 Listing of Instances for the Special Letter lamed

13 Description and Example Forms of the Special Letter mem

14 Listing of Instances for the Special Letter mem

15 Description and Example Forms of the Special Letter mem sofit

16 Listing of Instances for the Special Letter mem sofit

17 Description and Example Forms of the Special Letter nun

18 Listing of Instances for the Special Letter nun

19 Description and Example Forms of the Special Letter tav

20 Listing of Instances for the Special Letter tav

21 Conclusion of Sefer Tagin

22 Summary—CG Joined Fragments

Part 3

6 Oxford Bodleian MS. Heb. 33/3 (fol. 9)

1 Critical Analysis of MS. Heb. d. 33/3

2 Continuing the Listing for the Special Letter nun

3 Description and Example Forms of the Special Letter nun sofit

4 Listing of Instances for the Special Letter nun sofit

5 The ‘Upside Down’ nun sofit of Haran

6 Continuing the Listing for the Special Letter nun sofit

7 Description and Example Forms of the Special Letter samekh

8 Listing of Instances for the Special Letter samekh

9 Description and Example Forms of the First Special Letter ?ayin

10 Listing of Instances for the First Special Letter ?ayin

11 Summary—Oxford Heb. 33/9

Appendix 1: Transcription and Annotation of T-S Misc. 24.182

Appendix 2: Enhanced Imagery of Sefer Tagin from Sassoon 82 (JUD. 022)

Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Marc Michaels is studying for a PhD at Cambridge University (FAMES). A Strategy and Creative Director, he is also a Sofer S"TaM presenting and writing on topics related to scribal practice (www.sofer.co.uk).