Jewish Manuscript Cultures : New Perspectives.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (494 pages)
- Studies in Manuscript Cultures Series ; v.13 .
- Studies in Manuscript Cultures Series .
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Codicology and Palaeography -- From the Archaeological Turn to 'Codicologie Structurale': The Concept of Codicology and the Material Description of Hebrew Manuscripts -- Scribal Aspects of the Manufacturing and Writing of the Qumran Scrolls -- The Anatomy of Non-biblical Scrolls from the Cairo Geniza -- A Pentateuch to Read in? The Secrets of the Regensburg Pentateuch -- Editing -- Shedding Light on Metatron - Recently Discovered Fragments of Mystical Writings in Germany -- On the History of Editing Pre-Modern Yiddish Manuscript Texts -- Collections -- The Preservation of Hebrew Books by Christians in the Pre-Reformation German Milieu -- Johannes Reuchlin's Collection of Hebrew Books - Its Afterlife and Influence -- Matters of Provenance: Hebrew Manuscripts Owned by a Distinguished French Archbishop -- Jacob Georg Christian Adler (1756-1834) and his Books -- Materials Studies -- Building a Bridge from the Dead Sea Scrolls to Mediaeval Hebrew Manuscripts -- Composition Analysis of Writing Materials in Geniza Fragments -- 'Write on Three Ribs of a Sheep': Writing Materials in Ancient and Mediaeval Jewish Magic -- Cultural Studies -- Codex hebraicus 18 and Codex hebraicus 53 in the Hamburg State and University Library - 'Corrected by Yiṣḥaq of Arles' -- The Pillars of Exile by R. Yiṣḥaq of Corbeil: The Small Book of Commandments in Codex hebraicus 17, State and University Library Hamburg -- Pictorial Messages in Mediaeval Illuminated Hebrew Books: Some Methodological Considerations -- List of Contributors -- Index of manuscripts.
The series publishes monographs and collective volumes contributing to the emerging field of manuscript studies (manuscriptology), which includes disciplines such as philology, palaeography, codicology, art history, and material analysis. SMC encourages comparative approaches, without geographical or other limitations on the material studied; it contributes to a historical and systematic survey of manuscript cultures, and provides a new foundation for current discussions in Cultural Studies.