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Title Books within books : new discoveries in old book bindings / edited by Andreas Lehnardt, Judith Olszowy-Schlanger
Published Leiden : Brill, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (342 pages)
Series Studies in Jewish history and culture ; v. 42
'European Genizah': text and studies ; v. 2
Studies in Jewish history and culture ; v. 42.
'European Genizah': texts and studies ; v. 2
Contents List of Illustrations; Contributors; Editors' Foreword; Introduction: "Books within Books"-The State of Research and New Perspectives; Part One History of Research; Carta Pecudina Literis Hebraicis Scripta: The Awareness of the Binding Hebrew Fragments in History. An Overview and a Plaidoyer; Part Two Studies in Hebrew Fragments; The First Autograph of the Tosafists from the European Genizah; The Reconstruction of a Sefer Haftarot from the Rhine Valley: Towards a Typology of Ashkenazi Pentateuch Manuscripts
A Newly Discovered Fragment from Midrash Tanhuma in the Collection of Western European Manuscripts in the Russian State Library (Moscow)Josephus Torn to Pieces-Fragments of Sefer Yosippon in Genizat Germania; Binding Accounts: A Leger of a Jewish Pawn Broker from 14th Century Southern France (MS Krakow, BJ Przyb/163/92); Hebrew Fragments as a Window on Economic Activity: Holdings in the Historical Archives of Girona (Arxiu Històric de Girona); Part Three Regional Projects; A Regional Perspective on Hebrew Fragments: The Case of Moravia
Bindings and Covers: Fragments of Books and Notebooks from the Angelica Library (Biblioteca Angelica, Rome)Medieval Hebrew Manuscript Fragments in Switzerland: Some Highlights of the Discoveries; Newly Discovered Hebrew Fragments in the State Archive of Amberg (Bavaria)-Some Suggestions on Their Historical Background ; European Fragments in the Spines of the Book Collection of a Yemenite Community; Genizat Yerushalayim: The National Library of Israel in Jerusalem; Fragments as Objects: Medieval Austrian Fragments in the Jewish Museum of Vienna; Index of Persons; Index of Subjects
Summary Books with Books is the second collection of interdisciplinary articles on Hebrew Binding fragments, representing current scholarship and its international scope. The volume presents new manuscripts discoveries from several European countries
Notes Includes index
Proceedings of the Eleventh eAJS Summer Colloquium, "Books within books-New discoveries in old book-bindings", held at Wolfson College, University of Oxford (July 18-20, 2011)
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Subject Manuscripts, Hebrew -- Europe -- Congresses
Manuscripts, Aramaic -- Europe -- Congresses
Manuscripts, Medieval -- Europe -- Congresses
Paleography, Hebrew -- Congresses
Judaism -- History -- Medieval and early modern period, 425-1789.
Rabbinical literature -- Bibliography
ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES -- General.
Judaism -- Medieval and early modern period
Manuscripts, Aramaic
Manuscripts, Hebrew
Manuscripts, Medieval
Paleography, Hebrew
Rabbinical literature
Hebräisch
Aramäisch
Handschrift
Paläographie
Europe
Europa
Genre/Form Bibliographies
Conference papers and proceedings
History
Form Electronic book
Author Lehnardt, Andreas, editor
Olszowy-Schlanger, Judith, editor
Lehnardt, Andreas. Newly discovered Hebrew fragments in the State Archive of Amberg (Bavaria)
ISBN 9789004258501
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