Hebrew Manuscripts of the Middle Ages

Erscheinungsjahr 2008
ISBN: 978-0-521-09023-0
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 365 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 635 g

Hebrew manuscripts are our most important source of knowledge about Jewish intellectual, religious and everyday life in the Middle Ages, and anyone wishing to engage with medieval Jewish history needs to know about the manuscripts themselves, how to study them, and the literary genres to which they belong. Colette Sirat offers a comprehensive overview of these subjects in this illustrated introduction to Hebrew manuscript culture. The present work is a considerably re-structured, extended and updated version of an earlier presentation in French. It now encompasses all aspects of Hebrew manuscripts - textual, codicological and palaeographical - combining different disciplines to give an all-embracing view of the subject. The volume has been translated from the author's revision of her earlier French book, and edited for an English readership, by leading Hebrew scholar Nicholas de Lange, who worked closely with Professor Sirat in the preparation of the new book.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sirat, Colette

Weitere Mitwirkende

De Lange, Nicholas

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: Klassisch (Griechisch & Römisch)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; Part I. Texts: Before the Middle Ages; The Middle Ages; Part II. Books: Codicology; Writing: calligraphic and personal subjects; The scribe; Appendix: Abbreviations, acrostics and the meaning of the Hebrew letters; Part III. The History of Books and Texts: The life and death of manuscripts; Libraries; Questions of method: codicology and palaeography; Texts, copies and text-editions; Judgement on readings and the edition of texts; Part IV. Some Manuscripts: Ten manuscripts: pictures and detailed descriptions.

Über Autor(innen)

Sirat, Colette
Colette Sirat is Professor at the École Pratique des Hautes Études, Department of History and Philology, and head of the Hebrew Department, Institut de Recherche et d'Histoire des Textes, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris.